The March

Late in the American Civil War, General William Tecumseh Sherman leads sixty thousand Union soldiers through Georgia to the Atlantic coast and then north into the Carolinas, burning cities and fighting off Confederate forces. Around the army gathers a moving population of freed Black people, white refugees, deserters and camp followers. Among them are Pearl, the pale-skinned daughter of a planter and an enslaved woman, who disguises herself as a drummer boy; Arly, a cunning Confederate soldier sure that God steers his every move; a pitiless Union doctor who takes pride in how fast he amputates; and Sherman himself, moody and hungry for glory. Their paths cross and recross in short scenes as the march rolls on, showing its pillage and cruelty beside the care that people find for one another in its wake.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Historical, War (assigned by AI)

Set in

United States, 1864–1865

First published

2005

Author's age

74 when first published

ISBN

9780375506710 (Random House, United States)

9780812976151 (Random House Trade Paperbacks, United States)

9780349119595 (Abacus, United Kingdom)

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