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Canada and the United States

Jacqueline Glass Campbell. When Sherman Marched North from the Sea: Resistance on the Confederate Home Front. (Civil War America.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2003. Pp. xii, 177. $27.50.

In this concise and tidy book, Jacqueline Glass Campbell demonstrates that General William Tecumseh Sherman's march through Georgia and South Carolina and into North Carolina was an "invasion of both geographic and psychological space" (p. 4). As the Union Army invaded, it created in its own mind a "vision of the Southern landscape as military terrain," a far cry from the way in which white and black southerners saw it. Campbell gives close attention to the changing emotional states of Union soldiers, which varied in accordance with the degree of hostility and resistance with which Sherman's army was greeted. As they marched easily through Georgia, they felt an almost euphoric and certainly unrealistic confidence in their leader and therefore in themselves. For its part, Georgia came to be viewed as shameful and dishonorable for not putting up more of a fight. Such would not be the case in South Carolina, Sherman's soldiers knew. At the same time, the Union men could match South Carolina's fire-eating passions with their own "burning desire to seek revenge on the Southern state that had instigated four years of bloody warfare" (p. 35). And South Carolinian civilians "found the Northern army's knowledge of the landscape," which it had gained through Sherman's extensive use of maps, "disconcerting." Regardless of change over space, Sherman's march had a single common purpose throughout: "to simultaneously destroy the military resources and the morale of the Southern people" (p. 5).

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