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In 1864, after Union general William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta, he marched his sixty thousand troops east through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces and lived off the land, pillaging the Southern plantations, taking cattle and crops for their own, demolishing cities, and accumulating a borne-along population of freed blacks and white refugees until all that remained was the dangerous transient life of the uprooted, the dispossessed, and the triumphant.
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2005
Awards
National Book Award (Finalist — Fiction — 2005)
Pulitzer Prize (Finalist — Fiction — 2006)
LA Times Book Prize (Finalist — Fiction — 2005)
National Book Critics Circle Award (Finalist — Fiction — 2005)
The Economist Best Books (2005.9)
Indies Choice Book Award (Honor Book — Adult Fiction — 2006)
PEN/Faulkner Award (Finalist — 2006)
Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction (Winner — 2006)
Booklist Editor's Choice: Adult Books (Fiction — 2005)
San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year (Fiction — 2005)
Christian Science Monitor Best Book (Fiction — 2005)
Booklist Top of the List: Best of Editors' Choice (Adult Fiction — 2005)
Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year (Fiction — 2005)