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The march [electronic resource] : [a novel] / E.L. Doctorow.

by Doctorow, E. L., 1931-2015.

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[Santa Ana, Calif.] : Books on Tape, 2005.

Sherman's March through the Carolinas -- Fiction.

Sherman's March to the Sea -- Fiction.

South Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.

Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.

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http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=301351AB-50A6-4D4E-B8DA-244C362A8D98 This title is available online; click here to access

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In 1864, after Union general William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta, he marched his sixty thousand troops east through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces and lived off the land, pillaging the Southern plantations, taking cattle and crops for their own, demolishing cities, and accumulating a borne-along population of freed blacks and white refugees until all that remained was the dangerous transient life of the uprooted, the dispossessed, and the triumphant. Only a master novelist could so powerfully and compassionately render the lives of those who marched. The author of "Ragtime", "City of God", and "The book of Daniel" has given us a magisterial work with an enormous cast of unforgettable characters: white and black, men, women, and children, unionists and rebels, generals and privates, freed slaves and slave owners.

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