The Bonfire is the epic story of the besieged city and its townspeople, and of how Atlanta came to be the key to the South. The most terrible city siege in American history took place in Atlanta in 1864.
Nothing was quite what it seemed in Civil War Atlanta: Sherman, who made Georgia howl, was as unreconstructed a racist at the end of the war as at the beginning; Union troops and Confederate forces laughed and sang together from opposite ends of the Chattahoochee River before slaughtering each other in the hellacious final conflict; Atlanta's Mayor Calhoun remained a staunch believer in the Union despite waging war against it; and a handful of slaves-like Bob Yancey, who surrendered the city to Sherman's forces alongside the town's leading citizens-exited the war freed of slavery's yoke, and among the wealthiest citizens of a devastated city that would become the engine of the New South. With the compelling, interwoven, and often surprising life stories of a colorful cast of characters, Marc Wortman recreates the age, city, and siege where the Confederacy met its destiny.
The Bonfire is the epic story of the besieged city and its townspeople, and of how Atlanta came to be the key to the South. The most terrible city siege in American history took place in Atlanta in 1864.
Nothing was quite what it seemed in Civil War Atlanta: Sherman, who made Georgia howl, was as unreconstructed a racist at the end of the war as at the beginning; Union troops and Confederate forces laughed and sang together from opposite ends of the Chattahoochee River before slaughtering each other in the hellacious final conflict; Atlanta's Mayor Calhoun remained a staunch believer in the Union despite waging war against it; and a handful of slaves-like Bob Yancey, who surrendered the city to Sherman's forces alongside the town's leading citizens-exited the war freed of slavery's yoke, and among the wealthiest citizens of a devastated city that would become the engine of the New South. With the compelling, interwoven, and often surprising life stories of a colorful cast of characters, Marc Wortman recreates the age, city, and siege where the Confederacy met its destiny.
The Bonfire: The Siege and Burning of Atlanta
464
The Bonfire: The Siege and Burning of Atlanta
464Paperback(Reprint)
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| ISBN-13: | 9781586488192 |
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| Publisher: | PublicAffairs |
| Publication date: | 06/01/2010 |
| Edition description: | Reprint |
| Pages: | 464 |
| Sales rank: | 216,734 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.60(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d) |