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Saving Savannah : the city and the Civil War /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jones, Jacqueline, 1948-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
Subjects:
Savannah (Ga.) > History > 19th century.
Georgia > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
Savannah (Ga.) > Race relations > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Georgia > Savannah > History > 19th century.
Freedmen > Georgia > Savannah > History > 19th century.
Slavery > Georgia > Savannah > History > 19th century.
Savannah (Ga.) > Social conditions > 19th century.
Elite (Social sciences) > Georgia > Savannah > History > 19th century.
Social classes > Georgia > Savannah > History > 19th century.
Table of Contents:
  • ANTEBELLUM. I am in the hands of kidnappers
  • Sell and buy and sell and buy
  • Our common Master in heaven
  • A demon ready with knife and torch
  • Let's see her face
  • IN BELLO. An abiding hope in every breast
  • As traitors, they go over to the enemy
  • Are we free?
  • We have dyed the ground with blood
  • POSTBELLUM. The way we can best take care of ourselves
  • For I have a great deal to do
  • A dream of the past
  • To have a big meeting, a big shooting, or big blood
  • The present deranged system of labor
  • You will see them studying
  • I came to do my own work
  • When you leave set fire to all the houses
  • Those peaceful, powerful weapons
  • MAPS. Map of Savannah, Civil War era
  • Lloyd's topographical map of Georgia
  • Sketch of the Atlantic Coast of the United States
  • The defense of Savannah
  • General Sherman's campaign war map.