Bibliograph

The march, a novel, E.L. Doctorow

Type

Label

The march, a novel, E.L. Doctorow

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The march

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

632225958

Responsibility statement

E.L. Doctorow

Sub title

a novel

Summary

In 1864, after Union general William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta, he marched his sixty thousand troops east through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces and lived off the land, pillaging the Southern plantations, taking cattle and crops for their own, demolishing cities, and accumulating a borne-along population of freed blacks and white refugees until all that remained was the dangerous transient life of the uprooted, the dispossessed, and the triumphant

Table Of Contents

Georgia -- South Carolina -- North Carolina

Classification