What the Yankees Did to Us

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-88146-640-9
Verlag: Mercer University Press

Buch, Englisch, 277 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 703 g

The name of Union general William T. Sherman is still reviled in Atlanta, 150 years after his soldiers devastated this important Georgia city. Thirty-seven days of artillery bombardment, July-August 1864, wrecked countless downtown buildings and killed perhaps a score of civilians. Longtime Atlantan Stephen Davis describes Sherman’s shelling in detail unmatched in the Civil War literature. After capturing Atlanta, Federal troops occupied the city for two and a half months during September-November, further tearing down more buildings to make their huts and fortifications. Before leading his army across Georgia to the sea, Sherman ordered the leveling of much of downtown. His soldiers took up torches on their own and set fires throughout town. The “Burning of Atlanta” is thus only part of the city’s wartime travail. Davis tells the story with a thoroughness and understanding that makes What the Yankees Did to Us the definitive work on the subject.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davis, Stephen

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Davis has lived in Atlanta, Georgia, most of his life, earning degrees from Emory University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His book, Atlanta Will Fall: Sherman, Joe Johnston, and the Yankee Heavy Battalions (2001) helped establish his reputation as one of the leading scholars of the Atlanta Campaign. He served as book review editor for Blue & Gray Magazine for more than two decades, and currently serves as book review editor for Civil War News.