Georgia Historical Society

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, where he is remembered as “one who marched to the sea with death and devastation in his wake.”

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