http://marklindner.info/blog/2005/08/13/books-and-libraries-in-camp-and-battle/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:54:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://marklindner.info/blog/2005/08/13/books-and-libraries-in-camp-and-battle/comment-page-1/#comment-134 Mark Sun, 14 Aug 2005 22:12:35 +0000 http://marklindner.info/blog/?p=216#comment-134 The March does look interesting, while it most certainly doesn't look like bedtime reading! The real thing (ok, the various historical versions) is brutal enough for me so I'll skip the fictive versions for now. Of course, so many of the accounts that did come down to us, and the early histories, are based on highly fictive accounts as much of the newspaper acounts were highly embellished in various manners ideological and melodramatic. I'm still real hazy on much of the war history itself, since that is sort of incidental (dare I say) to my purposes, but my understanding is that Sherman turned north upon reaching the sea. I don't know if as much death and destruction accrued on that part of the march, but march onward he did I believe. The March does look interesting, while it most certainly doesn’t look like bedtime reading! The real thing (ok, the various historical versions) is brutal enough for me so I’ll skip the fictive versions for now. Of course, so many of the accounts that did come down to us, and the early histories, are based on highly fictive accounts as much of the newspaper acounts were highly embellished in various manners ideological and melodramatic. I’m still real hazy on much of the war history itself, since that is sort of incidental (dare I say) to my purposes, but my understanding is that Sherman turned north upon reaching the sea. I don’t know if as much death and destruction accrued on that part of the march, but march onward he did I believe.

]]> http://marklindner.info/blog/2005/08/13/books-and-libraries-in-camp-and-battle/comment-page-1/#comment-133 Lisle Sun, 14 Aug 2005 11:54:22 +0000 http://marklindner.info/blog/?p=216#comment-133 This looks like an absolutely fascinating topic for research, but I don't know if I could do it. I got a freebie copy of The March by Doctorow at ALA. I started it, but it is not bed-time reading! Plus, it makes me think of what's happening now, though at least Sherman's march did end at the sea. This looks like an absolutely fascinating topic for research, but I don’t know if I could do it. I got a freebie copy of The March by Doctorow at ALA. I started it, but it is not bed-time reading! Plus, it makes me think of what’s happening now, though at least Sherman’s march did end at the sea.

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