General Sherman's Christmas: Savannah, 1864

by Stanley Weintraub

Overview

Historian Stanley Weintraub, author of Silent Night, combines two winning topics—Christmas and the Civil War—in General Sherman’s Christmas, new from Smithsonian Books. Focusing on the holiday season of 1864, when General Sherman relentlessly pushed his troops across Georgia to capture Savannah, General Sherman’s Christmas includes the voices of soldiers and civilians on both sides of the conflict and is illustrated with striking period prints, making it the perfect holiday present for every history buff.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780061959462
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	12/15/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	260
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Stanley Weintraub is a historian, a biographer, and a professor emeritus of the arts and humanities at Penn State University. He is the author of Silent Night: The Story of the 1914 Christmas Truce and General Washington's Christmas Farewell. He lives with his wife in Newark, Delaware.