| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.1

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Book Review

Sherman's March in Myth and Memory. By Edward Caudill and Paul Ashdown. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. x, 211 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-7425-5027-8.)
The images of Gen. William T. Sherman's men marching through Georgia seemingly remain burned into the American historical memory. But what was real, and what was imagined? What do these accounts tell us about the formation of stereotypes, or even of history? What does a study of all those issues mean for today's society?	1
Scholars such as David W. Blight, Gary Gallagher, Carol Reardon, and a host of others—including Alice Hoffman and Howard Hoffman in their less-noticed Archives of Memory (1990)—have provided good answers to many of those queries, while raising new questions. Many aspects of Sherman's march have been studied by such scholars as Marion Lucas, Joseph Glatthaar, Lee Kennett, and Jacqueline Glass Campbell, not to mention the numerous good biographies of the general and other principals.	. . .

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