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contents Acknowledgments xiii introduction Marching through Metaphors 1 one Stories of the Great March 8 two Southern Belles and Brother Masons 45 three Freedpeople and Forty Acres 69 four Brave Bummers of the West 94 five Uncle Billy, the Merchant of Terror 121 six On Sherman’s Track 152 seven Songs and Snapshots 175 eight Fiction and Film 204 conclusion Rubin’s March 232 Notes 239 Bibliography 271 Index 293 This page intentionally left blank [3.238.161.165] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 13:01 GMT) maps and illustrations Maps The March to the Sea 12 The March through the Carolinas 30 Illustrations 1868 engraving, after an illustration by F. O. C. Darley, presenting the popular view of Sherman’s March 5 Devastation left when Sherman’s men marched out of Atlanta 11 Columbia in flames 34 Stereograph showing the process of making “Sherman’s neckties” 39 Sherman and Johnston meeting to settle issues related to the surrender 43 White women’s distress at foragers tearing up their yards 58 Drawing by Thomas Nast portraying an idealized version of interactions between Union soldiers and Southern civilians 64 Lorenza Ezell, an ex-slave who claimed to have been freed by Sherman’s men 75 Union soldiers helping African American refugees across a stream 90 Depiction of raucous carousing by Sherman’s troops that accompanied the story “Bummers in Sherman’s Army” 96 A bummer returns to camp, laden with stolen food and property 105 The orderly march many of Sherman’s veterans preferred to recall 119 Sherman with a group of unidentified Union veterans 128 St. Gaudens statue of Sherman in New York City’s Grand Army Plaza 136 Flags being pulled away to unveil the statue of Sherman in Washington, D.C., in 1903 139 Sheet music cover for “Sherman’s March to the Sea,” one of the most popular Civil War songs 178 Plate from Photographic Views of Sherman’s Campaign, depicting Columbia’s destruction 192 Engraving of Thomas Nast’s pastoral scene of Sherman’s March as gentle and benign 194 The home built by Margaret Mitchell’s grandfather, the “Old Home Place,” which was the original setting for Gone with the Wind 211 Tombstones vandalized by Sherman’s men in Savannah’s Colonial Park Cemetery 236 ...