Through the heart of Dixie : Sherman's March and American memory

Through the heart of Dixie : Sherman's March and American memory / Anne Sarah Rubin.

"Sherman's March, cutting a path through Georgia and the Carolinas, is among the most symbolically potent events of the Civil War. In Through the Heart of Dixie, Anne Sarah Rubin uncovers and unpacks stories and myths about the March from a wide variety of sources, including African Americ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rubin, Anne S.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014]
Series:Civil War America (Series)
Subjects:
Sherman, William T. > (William Tecumseh), > 1820-1891.
Sherman's March to the Sea.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Destruction and pillage.
Georgia > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Marching through metaphors
  • Stories of the great march
  • Southern belles and brother masons
  • Freedpeople and forty acres
  • Brave bummers of the West
  • Uncle Billy, the Merchant of Terror
  • On Sherman's track
  • Songs and snapshots
  • Fiction and film
  • Conclusion : Rubin's March.

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