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Somewhere Toward Freedom Sherman’s March and the Story of America’s Largest Emancipation
by Bennett Parten published by Simon & Schuster (2025)
There was a lot of anticipation before this book appeared in bookstores and on Amazon. I heard scholars talking about the work months before it came out. While there have been some very good books on Major General William Tecumseh Sherman’s “March to the Sea,” Bennett Parten combined the military story of the last months of Confederate Georgia with an analysis of the impact the march had on enslaved African Americans it encountered on the Union army’s journey. And, of course, it also examines the slave communities effort to help the Federal army and what they were hoping for that would come as a result of their actions.
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