The General Who Marched to Hell: Sherman and the Southern Campaign

xxiii, 349, [xvii] pp. This biography of Sherman focuses principally on his Atlanta and March to the Sea campaigns. Miers' approach is to use the diaries and personal letters of soldiers, citizens, and other "average" people to tell the story of Sherman's campaigns through the eyes of those who lived through them. Miers's selection of subjects includes people from both sides and is quite balanced in its view.