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• W94170726 abstract "SOUTHERN STORM: Sherman's March to the Sea, Noah Andre Trudeau, Harper/Collins Publishers, New York, 2008, 704 pages, $35.00. The picture of Sherman's March to the Sea as an American epic and an episode of total war has governed popular memory and Civil War historiography since 1865. Drawing on numerous primary sources (official records, memoirs, and diaries, Union and Confederate, Soldier and civilian), Trudeau tries to determine exactly what happened on the march. In the course of his research, he found that each day of the five-week march was recounted in at least 50 journals. Trudeau has illustrated each day's progress with a small map that included weather data. He notes most people assume the march occurred in mild sunny weather, but he shows that mild weather turned to rain and cold, something Sherman had not anticipated. He confirmed that the campaign was well organized, carefully planned, but left room to improvise; reporting the army carried a 20-day supply of bread, a 40-day supply of sugar, coffee, and salt, and three days of animal feed with it as well as a 40-day beef supply on the hoof. These supplies were almost untouched because of the army's foraging. While Sherman promised to make Georgia howl and his army was not gentle, Trudeau's account concerns military prowess and survival, not rampant destruction. Union soldiers burned homes, confiscated crops, and crippled railroads as they marched from Atlanta to Savannah but few Confederate or Union soldiers were killed and north east Georgia quickly recovered. The mythology suggests a much grimmer story, but Trudeau writes the march may forever be best remembered for everything it wasn't. His day-by-day, mile-by-mile narrative of the march sometimes becomes tedious (one wearies of reading about the availability of sweet potatoes) but the march was dangerous because small groups of foragers risked constant enemy sniping and outraged citizens as Sherman abandoned his supply base and his communication with the outside world. While the cities in the army's path bore the brunt of the army's anger and war industry was destroyed, civilians' homes were usually protected if they did not interfere with the army's passage. Sherman avoided major confrontations with the Confederate forces by dividing his army into two columns, the Army of the Tennessee (led by General O.O. Howard) and the Army of Georgia (led by General Henry Slocum). This allowed him to threaten the maximum number of targets and thin out Southern defenses. Neither general was noted for imagination and independence, but both were hard-driving, capable commanders who Sherman relied on to execute his plans without question. The Confederate response was hampered by a divided command structure that gave similar responsibilities to three generals and the governor of Georgia. …" @default.
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