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The Bonfire
The Siege and Burning of Atlanta
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By Marc Wortman
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The Bonfire reveals an Atlanta of unexpected paradoxes: a new mercantile city dependent on the primitive institution of slavery; governed by a pro-Union mayor, James Calhoun, whose cousin was a famous defender of the South. When he surrendered the city to General Sherman after forty-four terrible days, Calhoun was accompanied by Bob Yancey, a black slave likely the son of Union advocate Daniel Webster. Atlanta was both the last of the medieval city sieges and the first modern urban devastation. From its ashes, a new South would arise.
- On Sale
- Dec 16, 2008
- Page Count
- 464 pages
- Publisher
- PublicAffairs
- ISBN-13
- 9780786741588
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