To the Sea: A History and Tour Guide of the War in the West, Sherman's March Across Georgia, 1864 (Second Edition)
Jim Miles
In November 1864 William T. Sherman burned Atlanta and took an army of eighty thousand hardened Union veterans on a campaign that crushed the heart of the Confederacy. When he reached Savannah a month later, an ugly scar three hundred miles long and sixty miles wide had been burned across Georgia. Along the way the armies had destroyed factories, mills, and agricultural produce. Thousands of civilians — mostly women, children, and the elderly — had been left hungry and destitute.
To the Sea captures every aspect of the March, from Sherman's strategy to the brilliant methods he used to execute it. Here readers travel from Atlanta to Savannah on a journey in which soldiers and civilians, heroes and opportunists, men and women alike fought for their lives. Included is a series of driving tours that enable readers to see firsthand the path the armies took.
In addition to the lively history of the march, To the Sea includes more than one hundred photographs, maps, fascinating tours of the routes, sidebar articles on military strategy and biographical sketches of generals as well as a chronology of important events, sources for additional travel information, an index, and a bibliography.
| JIM MILES is a seasoned battlefield explorer, author, historian, and teacher who has written more than one hundred articles and several books on Southern history, archaeology, and the Civil War. The author of the best-selling WEIRD GEORGIA, Miles lives in Warner Robbins, Georgia. |
$20.95, Paperback
ISBN-10: 1-58182-261-8 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-1-58182-261-8 (Paperback)
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