Description: An "account of Sherman's March to the Sea--the critical Civil War campaign that destroyed the Confederacy--told for the first time from the perspective of the tens of thousands of enslaved people who fled to the Union lines and transformed Sherman's march into the biggest liberation event in American history"--
Brief description: Bennett Parten is an assistant professor of history at Georgia Southern University. His area of expertise is the Civil War period. He was named a Distinguished Lecturer by the Organization of American Historians. He is a native of Royston, Georgia, and completed his PhD in history at Yale University. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, Zocalo Public Square, and The Civil War Monitor, among others. He currently lives in Savannah, Georgia.
Review Quotes: "Parts of this story have been told before, in bits and pieces, in broader works about the Civil War or emancipation or the march itself. But Parten's may be the first to make freedpeople its sole focus, and to claim that they were essential to the march's meaning."
--Scott Spillman, The New Yorker