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""Well researched, endlessly informed, and compulsively readable, Marching Through Georgia is everything a work of popular history ought to be."" -- Civil War Times Illustrated In this engrossing work of history, Lee Kennett brilliantly brings General Sherman's 1864 invasion of Georgia to life by capturing the ground-level experiences of the soldiers and civilians who witnesses the bloody campaign. From the skirmish at Buzzard Roost Gap all the way to Savannah ten months later, Kennett follows the notorious, complex Sherman, who attacked the heart of the Confederacy's arsenal. Marching Through Georgia describes, in gripping detail, the event that marked the end of the Old South.

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Well researched, endlessly informed, and compulsively readable, Marching Through Georgia is everything a work of popular history ought to be. -- Civil War Times Illustrated A Thoroughly readable, highly useful addition to the Civil War shelves. -- Booklist

Well researched, endlessly informed, and compulsively readable, Marching Through Georgia is everything a work of popular history ought to be. -- Civil War Times Illustrated A work of impressive scholarship about soldiers at war and civilians caught in their path. -- New York Times Book Review A Thoroughly readable, highly useful addition to the Civil War shelves. -- Booklist

Well researched, endlessly informed, and compulsively readable, Marching Through Georgia is everything a work of popular history ought to be. -- Civil War Times Illustrated A work of impressive scholarship about soldiers at war and civilians caught in their path. -- New York Times Book Review A Thoroughly readable, highly useful addition to the Civil War shelves. -- Booklist

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Lee Kennett is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Georgia and the author of Marching Through Georgia: The Story of Soldiers and Civilians During Sherman's Campaign and G.I.: The American Soldier in World War II He lives in Pleasant Garden, North Carolina.

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