Southern Storm, Noah Andre Trudeau
Southern Storm, Noah Andre Trudeau
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Southern Storm
Sherman's March to the Sea

Author: Noah Andre Trudeau

Narrator: Eric Conger

Abridged: 11 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 08/05/2008


Synopsis

Award-winning Civil War historian Noah Andre Trudeau has written a gripping, definitive new account that will stand as the last word on General William Tecumseh Sherman's epic march—a targeted strategy aimed to break not only the Confederate army but an entire society as well. With Lincoln's hard-fought reelection victory in hand, Ulysses S. Grant, commander of the Union forces, allowed Sherman to lead the largest and riskiest operation of the war. In rich detail, Trudeau explains why General Sherman's name is still anathema below the Mason-Dixon Line, especially in Georgia, where he is remembered as ""the one who marched to the sea with death and devastation in his wake.""Sherman's swath of destruction spanned more than sixty miles in width and virtually cut the South in two, badly disabling the flow of supplies to the Confederate army. He led more than 60,000 Union troops to blaze a path from Atlanta to Savannah, ordering his men to burn crops, kill livestock, and decimate everything that fed the Rebel war machine. Grant and Sherman's gamble worked, and the march managed to crush a critical part of the Confederacy and increase the pressure on General Lee, who was already under siege in Virginia.Told through the intimate and engrossing diaries and letters of Sherman's soldiers and the civilians who suffered in their path, Southern Storm paints a vivid picture of an event that would forever change the course of America.

About Noah Andre Trudeau

Noah Andre Trudeau is the author of Gettysburg. He has won the Civil War Round Table of New York's Fletcher Pratt Award and the Jerry Coffey Memorial Prize. A former executive producer at National Public Radio, he lives in Washington, D.C.

About Eric Conger

Eric Conger's stage credits include appearances Off-Broadway and at the Long Wharf Theater. He has appeared as a regular on Another World and Loving, and has translated the works of Feydeau.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mara

An Unsolicited Personal Preamble I am a total noob when it comes to military tactics, maneuvers and whatnot in the American Civil War (heretofore referred to as "the Civil War,"but it's not like the U.S. holds the exclusive rights to combat among countrymen). I ended up reading this Noah And......more

I am struggling through it...a few more pages to go. Not very interesting and I wouldn't recommend it unless you are a civil war junkie like I am and you want to check the box on the March to the Sea. Sherman was only challenged by Joe Wheeler's cavalry and militia. As brave as they were, the only t......more

Goodreads review by Donna

“On earth, as in heaven, man must submit to an arbiter…He must not throw off his allegiance to his government or his God without just reason or cause. The South had no cause…Satan and the rebellious saints of Heaven were allowed a continuous existence in hell merely to swell their just punishment. T......more