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General Sherman's Christmas: Savannah, 1864
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Author
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Stanley Weintraub.
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Publisher
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Harper
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Format
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hardcover
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Product Dimensions
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9.25
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6.25
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ISBN
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9780061702983
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Pages/Publication Date
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238/2009
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Daedalus Item Code
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21762
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Description
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From the author of Silent Night: The Story of the 1914 Christmas Truce and General Washington's Christmas Farewell comes this close look at the embattled holiday season of 1864, when Major General William Tecumseh Sherman gave President Lincoln the city of Savannah and paved the way for the end of the Civil War. His methodical encroachment of the city from all sides convinced Confederate general W.J. Hardee, who had refused a demand for surrender of his troops, to slip away in darkness across an improvised causeway and escape to South Carolina. Stanley Weintraub explores how Christmas was traditionally fêted in the South, and what remained to celebrate as the war wound down its last full year.
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