Through the heart of Dixie
Subtitle: Sherman's March and American memory
By: Anne Sarah Rubin
Series: Civil War America; Civil War America (Series)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781469617770
Subjects: Sherman's March to the Sea
Description: "Sherman's March, cutting a path through Georgia and the Carolinas, is among the most symbolically potent events of the Civil War. In Through the Heart of Dixie, Anne Sarah Rubin uncovers and unpacks stories and myths about the March from a wide variety of sources, including African Americans, women, Union soldiers, Confederates, and even Sherman himself. Drawing her evidence from an array of media, including travel accounts, memoirs, literature, films, and newspapers, Rubin uses the competing and contradictory stories as a lens into the ways that American thinking about the Civil War has changed over time"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-291) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : marching through metaphors; title: Stories of the great march; title: Southern belles and brother masons; title: Freedpeople and forty acres; title: Brave bummers of the West; title: Uncle Billy, the Merchant of Terror; title: On Sherman's track; title: Songs and snapshots; title: Fiction and film; title: Conclusion : Rubin's March.