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  title info:
    title: Rising in flames
    sub title: Sherman's March and the fight for a new nation
  name:
    name part: Dickey, Jeff
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    edition: First Pegasus books edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxvii, 413 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Antebellum America was a deeply troubled country, divided by partisan gridlock and ideological warfare. There were angry voices in the streets and the statehouses, and furious clashes over race and immigration, coupled with a growing chasm between immense wealth and desperate poverty. The Civil War that followed brought America to the brink of self-destruction. But it also created a new country from the ruins of the old one, bolder and stronger than ever. No campaign in the war was more destructive, or more important, than William Sherman's legendary march through Georgia and the Carolinas. It would cripple the heart of the South's economy, free thousands of slaves and mark the beginning of a new era. This invasion not only quelled the Confederate forces, but transformed America, forcing it to reckon with a century of injustice. In this timely, narrative social history, Dickey reveals the story of women actively involved in the military campaign, and later in civilian networks, one of whom was so vital, even Sherman himself would call her 'General.' African Americans also took active roles as soldiers, builders and activists, despite the hesitation on the part of some, though not all, Union officers to integrate the ranks. Rich with despair and hope, brutality and compassion, Rising in Flames tells the dramatic story of the Union's invasion of the Confederacy. Dickey brilliantly examines how this colossal struggle provided a radiant and violent rebirth for a nation on the edge of collapse, and helped create a vigorous new country from the embers of the Old South.
  table of contents: Introduction: Two armies in Washington -- HOME FRONT. The western edge ; Tip of the sword -- INVASION. Echoes of Chickamauga ; Three views of Chattanooga ; Heroes in the field ; Damn your officers ; The wheel ; The anvil ; Shadowy territory ; Comrades in dirt ; All around them light as day ; Yell like the devil -- RECKONING. Sentinels ; Fire and sword ; To Raleigh -- LEGACY. The Grand Review ; The fires to come.
  note: J.D. Dickey.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
    geographic code: n-us-ga
  subject:
    topic: Sherman's March to the Sea
  subject:
    topic: Sherman's March through the Carolinas
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: Civil War, 1861-1865
    topic: Campaigns
  subject:
    geographic: Georgia
    topic: History
    temporal: Civil War, 1861-1865
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: Civil War, 1861-1865
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    geographic: United States
    topic: Civil War Period (1850-1877)
  classification: E476.69 .D53 2018
  classification: 973.7/378
  identifier: 9781681777573
  identifier: 1681777576
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180518
    record change date: 20181023092637.0
    record identifier: in00004002227