Award-winning Civil War historian Trudeau has written a fascinating new history of Sherman's legendary and devastating march through Georgia. Told through diaries and letters of Sherman's soldiers, this work paints a vivid picture of an event that changed the course of America.A revisionist history of the Union general's epic march offers insight into the strategy behind his campaign and the reasons why he is still reviled below the Mason-Dixon Line, in an account told through the diaries and letters of soldiers and civilians.