Demon of the Lost Cause : Sherman and Civil War history

Demon of the Lost Cause : Sherman and Civil War history / Wesley Moody.

At the end of the Civil War, Union general William Tecumseh Sherman was surprisingly more popular in the newly defeated South than he was in the North. Yet only thirty years later, his name was synonymous with evil and destruction in the South. Here, historian Wesley Moody examines these perplexing...

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Main Author: Moody, Wesley
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbia [Mo.] ; London : University of Missouri Press, ©2011.
Series:Shades of blue and gray series.
Subjects:
Sherman, William T. > (William Tecumseh), > 1820-1891.
Sherman, William T. > (William Tecumseh), > 1820-1891 > Public opinion.
Sherman, William T. > (William Tecumseh), > 1820-1891 > In literature.
Sherman, William T. > (William Tecumseh), > 1820-1891 > In motion pictures.
Sherman, William T. > (William Tecumseh), > 1820-1891
Sherman, William T. > 1820-1891
1861 - 1865
Sherman's March to the Sea > Historiography.
Public opinion > Southern States.
HISTORY > Military > Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
Historiography
Literature
Motion pictures
Public opinion
Geschichtsschreibung
Mythos
Sezessionskrieg.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Historiography.
Southern States
United States
USA
History
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Table of Contents:
  • The prewar years and the early war
  • The Atlanta campaign and the March to the Sea
  • The commanding general versus the North
  • The war of the memoirs
  • Sherman's last years
  • Sherman versus the Lost Cause
  • Embracing the Lost Cause
  • Sherman in film
  • Sherman and the modern historians.

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