Stanley Weintraub's "General Sherman's Christmas: Savannah, 1864" opens on Thanksgiving of that year when the "march to the sea" left from Atlanta with the goal of reaching Savannah by Christmas. Read fascinating details of the 1864 election with soldiers voting absentee, the huge burden of feeding and transporting an army of 64, 204 men, the engineering involed in crossing bridgeless rivers and swamps, the treatment of women encountered along the way and the methods used to form the famous "Sherman neckties" from rails. Sherman realized his goal and was dubbed by the Chicago Tribune as "Our Military Santa Claus."
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