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In 1864, Union general William Tecumseh Sherman marched his sixty thousand troops through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces, demolished cities, and accumulated a borne-along population of freed blacks and white refugees until all that... read more
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audio version of this book - 11.1 hrs.
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- Sherman: Add a description of this character.
- Kilpatrick
- Calvin Harper
- Wrede Sartorius
- Stephen Walsh
- Clarke
- Willie
- Josiah Culp
- David
- Wilma
- Morrison
- Teack
- Joe Johnston
- Hugh Pryce
- Mattie Jameson
- Slocum
- Bert
- Emily Thompson
- Yost
- Grant
- Roscoe
- Stanton
- Lee
- Jake Early
- Goldsboro
- Malone
- Oakey
- Marie
- Howard
- Mrs. Lincoln
- Coalhouse
- Jamie
- Moses Brown
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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 to come, and down the stairs she flew to see 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 sholders, showing stolid patience even in this, and the woman standing in her carriage no one 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.
Table of Contents edit
Part I - Georgia
Part II - South Carolina
Part III - North Carolina
Authors & Contributors edit
- E. L. Doctorow (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Random House
Country: USA
Publication Date: September 20, 2005
ISBN: 978-0375506710
Page Count: 363
Publisher: Random House
Country: USA
Publication Date: September 20, 2005
ISBN: 978-0375506710
Page Count: 363
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- PEN/Faulkner Award (2006: Fiction)
- Pulitzer Prize (Finalist, 2006: Fiction)
- National Book Critics Circle Award (2005: Fiction)
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- Dewey: 813.54
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