Volume 42, Number 20 · December 21, 1995
Götterdämmerung
By James M. McPherson
The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy Toward Southern Civilians, 1861–1865
by Mark Grimsley
Cambridge University Press, 244 pp., $29.95
Citizen Sherman: A Life of William Tecumseh Sherman
by Michael Fellman
Random House, 486 pp., $30.00
Robert E. Lee: A Biography
by Emory M. Thomas
Norton, 472 pp., $30.00
Davis and Lee at War
by Steven E. Woodworth
University Press of Kansas, 409 pp., $29.95
In 1994, one hundred and thirty years after General William T. Sherman's army set forth on its march from Atlanta to the sea, Sherman's legacy remained vivid and bitter in the South. A proposed monument to Sherman's soldiers at Bentonville, North Carolina, where one of the last battles of the Civil War took place, ran into a firestorm of local opposition. Sherman was 'more evil than Ivan the Terrible or Genghis Khan,' declared the Secretary of Cultural Resources for North Carolina. His soldiers deserved no monument, agreed the state commander of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. 'Monuments should be erected to heroes. These were no heroes. They were thieves, murderers, rapists, arsonists, trespassers.'
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