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...autumn of 1864, the final months of the Civil War, and General William Tecumseh Sherman is leading 60,000 Union troops in his fearsome march across Georgia and the Carolinas. As Sherman's men humble the Confederate countryside, hundreds of runaway slaves follow along. The author of Ragtime and Billy Bathgate returns to the vexed territory of the past and comes back with a novel in which Sherman's advancing column and the thousands of lives caught up in it become the force of history itself...
...autumn of 1864, the final months of the Civil War , and Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman is leading 60,000 Union troops in his fearsome march across Georgia and the Carolinas. As Sherman's men humble the Confederate countryside, hundreds of runaway slaves follow along. The author of Ragtime and Billy Bathgate returns to the vexed territory of the American past, and comes back with a novel in which Sherman's advancing column, and the thousands of lives caught up in it, becomes the force of history itself...
This time the story begins in the autumn of 1864. The intricate and troubled General William Tecumseh Sherman is leading 60,000 Union troops on his devastating final campaign of the Civil War. To demoralize the South, the seditious countryside of Georgia and the Carolinas is being deliberately humbled. Sherman's foraging parties are smashing the crockery of rich planters and making off with livestock and whiskey. Hundreds of slaves--men, women and children--are deserting their defeated masters and attaching themselves as refugees to Sherman's advancing army. "On the march," one character tells...
...BOXING Beno?t Gaudet, Drummondville, Que. Andrew Kooner, Tecumseh, Ont. Jean Pascal, Laval, Que. Adam Trupish, Windsor, Ont. Trevor Stewardson, Medicine Hat, Alta...
...wife Veta attend the annual gatherings of the nine Potawatomi bands, now scattered over several states. Leon has gone through the training and fasting that are required of those chosen as the tribe's honored fire keepers. And he has built a roundhouse on his property in Tecumseh, Okla., where family members gather four times a year to light a sacred fire and pray for the memory of their ancestor Moses Bruno...