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The March (2005)

by E. L. Doctorow

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In 1864, after Union general William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta, he marched his sixty thousand troops east through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces and lived off the land, pillaging the Southern plantations, taking cattle and crops for their own, demolishing cities, and accumulating a borne-along population of freed blacks and white refugees until all that remained was the dangerous transient life of the uprooted, the dispossessed, and the triumphant.… (more)
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    My Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira (whymaggiemay)
    whymaggiemay: Both novels show the medical side of the war, from the surgeon's and nurses points of view, albeit that the view in Mary Sutter is much grittier.
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    Shiloh by Shelby Foote (stretch)
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    Unto This Hour by Tom Wicker (stretch)
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    Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Limelite)
    Limelite: General Sherman's scorched earth policy as seen from a Southern plantation owner's view as opposed to the perpetrators'.
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Historical fiction at its best with Doctorow commanding Sherman's march across the south. ( )
  ben_r47 | Feb 22, 2024 |
(2005)Very good Civil War novel that follows several people that get involved with Sherman's march thru Georgia and the Carolinas at the end of the war.
  derailer | Jan 25, 2024 |
Sherman march in Civil War ( )
  pgabj | Aug 4, 2023 |
Also for David Blight's class. Missing something. ( )
  markm2315 | Jul 1, 2023 |
Started reading this, my first Doctorow, but couldn't get engaged. Putting it aside to try again later since it's my reading philosophy to not force a book...
  TeresaBlock | Feb 14, 2023 |
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Becker, Royce M.Cover designersecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Marinker, PeterNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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At five in the morning someone banging on the door and shouting, her husband, John, leaping out of bed, grabbing his rifle, and Roscoe at the same time roused from the backhouse, his bare feet pounding: Mattie hurriedly pulled on her robe, her mind prepared for the alarm of war, but the heart stricken that it would finally have come, and down the stairs she flew to see through the open door in the lamplight, at the steps of the portico, the two horses, steam rising from their flanks, their heads lifting, their eyes wild, the driver a young darkie with rounded shoulders, showing stolid patience even in this, and the woman standing in her carriage no but her aunt Letitia Pettibone of McDonough, her elderly face drawn in anguish, her hair a straggled mess, this woman of such fine grooming, this dowager who practically ruled the season in Atlanta standing up in the equipage like some hag of doom, which indeed she would prove to be.
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In 1864, after Union general William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta, he marched his sixty thousand troops east through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces and lived off the land, pillaging the Southern plantations, taking cattle and crops for their own, demolishing cities, and accumulating a borne-along population of freed blacks and white refugees until all that remained was the dangerous transient life of the uprooted, the dispossessed, and the triumphant.

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