Georgia Historical Society Lecture Series

August 14, 2008

Southern Storm:
Sherman’s March to the Sea
By Noah Andre Trudeau

Thursday, August 14, 2008, 7:00 p.m.
Congregation Mickve Israel

20 E. Gordon St., Savannah 

Monterey Square

Free and open to the public—Book signing following lecture
For more information, please call 912.651.2125
Or visit www.georgiahistory.com

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Award-winning Civil War historian Noah Andre Trudeau has written a fascinating new account of United States Army General William Tecumseh Sherman’s epic march—a targeted strategy aimed to break not only the Confederate Army but an entire society as well. In vivid detail, Trudeau explains why General Sherman’s name is still anathema below the Mason-Dixon Line, especially in Georgia.

Sherman’s swath of destruction spanned more than sixty miles in width and virtually cut the Confederacy in two, badly disabling the flow of supplies to the Rebel army. Told through the intimate and engrossing diaries and letters of Sherman’s soldiers and the civilians in their path, Southern Storm paints a vivid new picture of an event that would change the course of America.