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The march, a novel, E.L. Doctorow

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The march, a novel, E.L. Doctorow
Language
eng
Index
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Literary Form
novels
Main title
The march
Oclc number
61332379
Responsibility statement
E.L. Doctorow
Sub title
a novel
Summary
In 1864, after Union general William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta, he marched his sixty thousand troops east through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces and lived off the land, pillaging the Southern plantations, taking cattle and crops for their own, demolishing cities, and accumulating a borne-along population of freed blacks and white refugees until all that remained was the dangerous transient life of the uprooted, the dispossessed, and the triumphant
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