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305 pages
6 x 9 1/4"
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Civil War
Savannah
by Derek Smith
For all those who relish tales of the Civil War, this work will provide
a glimpse into the lives of the women and men who forever will be associated
with Savannah through their wartime deeds. Beginning with secession fever in
1860, the author leads us through stories about Robert E. Lee's sojourn in
Savannah, the building of the ironclads, the fall of Fort Pulaski and Fort
McAllister, Sherman's march
to the sea, and the death of the Confederacy in
1865.
In describing the saga of "the most terrifying military technology
of the age, . . . used with hard efficiency by men with dead aims and
dead-earnest causes," the author also beckons us: "The ghosts of pirates,
patriots, cavaliers, and their ladies will forever dance about
Savannah—creaking an occasional staircase or flitting through a fog-shrouded
cemetery. . . . In this realm ring the echoes of cannon fire, the vistas of
men in gray or blue marching in splendid columns, or slaves humming a
soothing cadence while digging entrenchments or toiling in the fields. Yank
or Reb, man or woman, free or slave, this is their story."