Sherman's March in Myth and Memory

ISBN	9780742550278
Author	Caudill, Edward/ Ashdown, Paul
Format	HARDCOVER
Publisher	Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
Pages	211
General Subject	History: World
Language	ENGLISH

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Unlike the standard biography, Sherman's March in Myth and Memory is an exploration of how the legendary General Sherman came to be viewed as the wellspring of destructive modern warfare and the antithesis of the old romantic ideas of war in both the North and the South. The authors trace the development of the memory of the great general through popular songs, books, and films from Reconstruction to today. They pay particular attention to the Gilded Age period, when Sherman's conduct of the war as a well-run factory came to embody the positive image of modernism and progress to the North and all the evils associated with that modernism and progress to the South.