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Book Review



When Sherman Marched North from the Sea: Resistance on the Confederate Home Front. By Jacqueline Glass Campbell. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xii, 177 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-8078-2809-2.)

Among the more popular topics in Civil War literature are William T. Sherman's campaigns through Georgia and the Carolinas. Novel in conception and scope, these marches generated powerful sentiments among contemporaries. Since then, the controversy has abated somewhat, but emotions still run high. Historians have fueled that interest, with works ranging from colorful campaign overviews to emphases on the perspective of the soldiers, from studies on destructive war making to discussions of war's immorality. 1
      Amid the abundance of arguments and books, Jacqueline Glass Campbell in When Sherman Marched North from the Sea has discovered a niche all her own by examining the Carolinas campaign from the point of view of those Southern women and blacks who experienced it. The result is a slender volume that makes a genuine contribution not just to the corpus of writings on the great march but also to the larger realm of Civil War scholarship. . . .

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