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Title: Southern Storm
Subtitle: Sherman's March to the Sea
Author: Noah Andre Trudeau
Narrator: Eric Conger
Format: Abridged
Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-05-08
Publisher: HarperAudio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 51 votes
Genres: History, American
Publisher's Summary:
With Lincoln's hard-fought reelection victory in hand, Ulysses S. Grant, commander of the Union forces, allowed Sherman to lead the largest and riskiest operation of the war. In rich detail, Trudeau explains why General Sherman's name is still anathema below the Mason-Dixon Line, especially in Georgia, where he is remembered as "the one who marched to the sea with death and devastation in his wake".
Sherman's swath of destruction spanned more than 60 miles in width and virtually cut the South in two, badly disabling the flow of supplies to the Confederate army. He led more than 60,000 Union troops to blaze a path from Atlanta to Savannah, ordering his men to burn crops, kill livestock, and decimate everything that fed the Rebel war machine.
Grant and Sherman's gamble worked, and the march managed to crush a critical part of the Confederacy and increase the pressure on General Lee, who was already under siege in Virginia.
Told through the intimate and engrossing diaries and letters of Sherman's soldiers and the civilians who suffered in their path, Southern Storm paints a vivid picture of an event that would forever change the course of America.
Editorial Reviews:
Eric Conger gives a dignified performance of award-winning American Civil War historian Noah Andre Trudeaus nonfiction book Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea. This audiobook features Trudeaus account of General William Tecumseh Sherman's scorched-earth campaign from Atlanta to Savannah. The general ordered 60,000 Union troops to burn crops and kill livestock along the way in order to cripple the opposing forces. The narrative features the diaries and letters of soldiers and civilians, which illuminate the event that altered the course of American history.
