Eyewitnesses to General William T. Sherman's Campaign in the Civil War by McNeely, Patricia G.

Eyewitnesses to General William T. Sherman's Campaign in the Civil War (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781544893280)

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Eyewitnesses to General William T. Sherman's Campaign in the Civil War by McNeely, Patricia G.

Eyewitnesses to General William T. Sherman's Campaign in the Civil War

$19.95
Eyewitnesses to General William T. Sherman's Campaign in the Civil War by McNeely, Patricia G.

Eyewitnesses to General William T. Sherman's Campaign in the Civil War

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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Originally published as "Eyewitnesses to General Sherman's Atrocities in the Civil War," this book focuses on recently released documents that Sherman gave to an old family friend before, during and after the war. Privately held for more than 150 years, the documents and eyewitness accounts provide significant new insight into Sherman's personal life as well as evidence of the destruction caused by his troops in his military, economic and psychological war on civilians in Georgia and the Carolinas. The documents and eyewitnesses also finally and convincingly end the 150-year-old controversy about who burned Columbia, South Carolina. Admitting his strategy to destroy towns in his path rather than leaving occupying forces, Sherman said that he "had not wanted to burn the town, it was such a pretty place," but "could leave no part" of his army to keep it."

Author: Patricia G. McNeely
ISBN-10: 1544893280
ISBN-13: 9781544893280
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 03/28/2017
Pages: 206
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.01w x 0.44d
By Patricia G. McNeely
By Patricia G. McNeely
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Professor Emerita Pat McNeely taught writing and reporting in the University of South Carolina College of Journalism for 33 years. Before joining the faculty, she was a reporter for The Greenville News, The State and The Columbia Record in South Carolina. She is also the author of "Sherman's Flame and Blame Campaign through Georgia and the Carolinas and the Burning of Columbia;" "Lincoln, Sherman, Davis and the Lost Confederate Gold;" "Knights of the Quill: Confederate Correspondents and their Civil War Reporting," and "Handwritten Recipes and Memories from America's First Families."

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