Screen LibraryThrough the heart of Dixie : Sherman's March and American memory /
"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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The University of North Carolina Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Chapel Hill, NC : |
| Publication Dates: | [2014] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Civil War America
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| Summary: |
"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 Americans, women, Union soldiers, Confederates, and even Sherman himself. Drawing her evidence from an array of media, including travel accounts, memoirs, literature, films, and newspapers, Rubin uses the competing and contradictory stories as a lens into the ways that American thinking about the Civil War has changed over time"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-291) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781469617770 1469617773 |
| Index Number: | E476 |
| CLC: | E712.9 |
| Call Number: | E712.9/R896 |
| 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. |