The March

E. L. Doctorow · 2005 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Contemporary

General Sherman's army cuts through Georgia and the Carolinas in 1864-65, and with it march a freed slave girl, a Union surgeon, deserters, refugees and the general himself. Doctorow follows a dozen lives across the swath of destruction.

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