FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:
Laura García-Culler, Executive Vice President
912.651.2125, or Email

GHS Presents Southern Storm: Sherman’s March to the Sea

Savannah, GA – August 1, 2008. For the Civil War in particular and American history in general, there are few more powerfully evocative events than Sherman’s March to the Sea. To this day Sherman is still remembered as both a savior of the Union and as an unprosecuted war criminal. Why?

The Georgia Historical Society invites you to attend a free lecture by award-winning Civil War historian Noah Andre Trudeau. The lecture will be held on Thursday, August 14, 2008, at 7:00 p.m. at Congregation Mickve Israel, 20 E. Gordon Street, on Monterey Square in downtown Savannah. Copies of Trudeau’s book Southern Storm: Sherman’s March to the Sea will be available for sale and a book-signing will follow the lecture.

Drawing on Research conducted at the Georgia Historical Society, 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.

Noah Andre Trudeau is the author of Gettysburg: A Testing of Courage. He has won the Civil War Round Table of New York’s Fletcher Pratt Award and the Jerry Coffey Memorial Book Prize. His work on Gettysburg was highlighted by a number of national and regional media outlets, including “The Today Show” and NPR’s “Morning Edition.” A former executive producer at National Public Radio, Trudeau lives in Washington, D.C.

The Georgia Historical Society, headquartered in Savannah, is the oldest cultural institution in the state and one of the oldest historical organizations in the nation. It is the first and only statewide historical society in Georgia. For nearly 175 years, GHS has collected, preserved, and shared Georgia history through a variety of educational outreach programs, publications, and research services. For more information visit: www.georgiahistory.com.