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Bezig met laden... Marching with Sherman: Passages from the Letters and Campaign Diaries of Henry Hitchcock, Major and Assistant Adjutant General of Volunteers, November 1864-May 1865door Henry Hitchcock, M. A. De Wolfe Howe (Redacteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Henry Hitchcock, the author was part of W. T. Sherman's staff during the March to the Sea and through the Carolinas. He recorded this journey through a journal he kept all through the campaign. The journal provides a different perspective than the one given by the Confederate officials both civilian and military whose purpose was scare tactics to drive the civilian population to fight the invaders. It also records many of the harsh treatment by Wheeler's forces to the civilian population. Good source that documents another perspective. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"Tomorrow morning we set out on a campaign which will be remembered. God grant it aid to bring to a speedy end this terrible and lamentable war!" So wrote Major Henry Hitchcock on the eve of General William Sherman's epic march across Georgia to the sea. Hitchcock, a new member of Sherman's staff, was right about the fame, or infamy, that would attach to the campaign. His diaries and letters describe at first hand the destructive swath Sherman's army cut through Georgia and the Carolinas. The major, religious and trained in the law, watches the burning and pillage with as much sorrow as satisfaction. If his sympathy for the Southern people is strong, so is his devotion to the Union and its unstoppable general. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)973.7378History and Geography North America United States Administration of Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865 Civil War Operations Campaign of 1864 concluded South Carolina, Georgia, Florida (14 Nov.-31 Dec.)LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: Geen beoordelingen.Ben jij dit?Word een LibraryThing Auteur. |