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What the Yankees Did to Us: Sherman's Bombardment and Wrecking of Atlanta (Signed)
by Stephen Davis
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0881463981
- ISBN 13
- 9780881463989
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Mercer University Press, 2012. Hardcover. Like New. 6x2x9. Signed. Inscribed by Stephen Davis on title page. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages. xxii, 527 pages, 49 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm. *Autographed by author.* <br> "Atlanta has earned distinction as one of the most burned cities in American history. During the Civil War, Atlanta was wrecked, but not by burning alone. Longtime Atlantan Stephen Davis tells the story of what the Yankees did to his city. General William T. Sherman's Union forces had invested the city by late July 1864. Northern artillerymen, on Sherman's direct orders, began shelling the interior of Atlanta on 20 July, knowing that civilians still lived there and continued despite their knowledge that women and children were being killed and wounded. Countless buildings were damaged by Northern missiles and the fires they caused. Davis provides the most extensive account of the Federal shelling of Atlanta, relying on contemporary newspaper accounts more than any previous scholar. The Yankees took Atlanta in early September by cutting its last railroad, which caused Confederate forces to evacuate and allowed Sherman's troops to march in the next day. The Federal army's two and a half-month occupation of the city is rarely covered in books on the Atlanta campaign. Davis makes a point that Sherman's wrecking continued during the occupation when Northern soldiers stripped houses and tore other structures down for wood to build their shanties and huts. Before setting out on his march to the sea, Sherman directed his engineers to demolish the city's railroad complex and what remained of its industrial plant. He cautioned them not to use fire until the day before the army was to set out on its march. Yet fires began the night of 11 November, deliberate arson committed against orders by Northern soldiers. Davis details the burning of Atlanta, and studies those accounts that attempt to estimate the extent of destruction in the city.
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- Title
- What the Yankees Did to Us: Sherman's Bombardment and Wrecking of Atlanta (Signed)
- Author
- Stephen Davis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
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- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0881463981
- ISBN 13
- 9780881463989
- Publisher
- Mercer University Press
- Place of Publication
- Macon
- Date Published
- 2012
- Size
- 6x2x9
- X weight
- 38 oz
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