Sherman takes Savannah
By: H. Ronald Freeman
Publisher: Freeport Publishing
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Savannah, Georgia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780971527423
Subjects: History
Description: Savannah was a leading voice, port and battlefield in a period that tested but ultimately unified the America we know today. William Tecumseh Sherman has come to personify the "devil-incarnate" from the North who was loosed on a Georgia populace that was already weary from four years of war. Who was this man and what were the horrors, real or imagined, that he bestowed on Georgia's citizens as his army moved like a swarm of locusts from Atlanta to Savannah?
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Secession; title: 2. Fortification; title: 3. Blockade; title: 4. The Mosquito Fleet; title: 5. Bartow; title: 6. Ft. Pulaski; title: 7. Bracing for attack; title: 8. Ft. McAllister; title: 9. Town without pity; title: 10. Sherman; title: 11. Atlanta to the sea; title: 12. Lieutenants and logistics; title: 13. Marcfhing through Georgia; title: 14. Push to Savannah; title: 15. The Southern Alamo; title: 16. The noose tightens; title: 17. Yankees at the gate; title: 18. Battle lines drawn; title: 19. Exodus; title: 20. Surrender; title: 21. 40 acres and a mule; title: 22. Occupation; title: 23. On to Carolina; title: 24. Epilogue.