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The Bonfire
The Siege and Burning of Atlanta
Contributors
By Marc Wortman
Formats and Prices
- On Sale
- Jun 1, 2010
- Page Count
- 464 pages
- Publisher
- PublicAffairs
- ISBN-13
- 9781586488192
Price
$24.99Price
$32.99 CADFormat
Format:
- Trade Paperback $24.99 $32.99 CAD
- ebook $10.99 $13.99 CAD
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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.
