TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moody,Wesley
TI  - Demon of the Lost Cause: Sherman and Civil War history 
T2  - Shades of blue and gray series
SN  - 9780826219459
AV  - E467.1.S55 M66 2011
U1  - 937.7/378 23
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Columbia, Mo., London
PB  - University of Missouri Press
KW  - Sherman, William T.
KW  - American Civil War (1861-1865)
KW  - fast
KW  - Sherman's March to the Sea (1864)
KW  - Sherman's March to the Sea
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - Southern States
KW  - Literature
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Geschichtsschreibung
KW  - gnd
KW  - mythos
KW  - Sezessionskrieg
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - USA
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-180) and index; The prewar years and the early war -- The Atlanta campaign and the March to the Sea -- The commanding general versus the North -- The war of the memoirs -- Sherman's last years -- Sherman versus the Lost Cause -- Embracing the Lost Cause -- Sherman in film -- Sherman and the modern historians
N2  - At the end of the Civil War, Union general William Tecumseh Sherman was surprisingly more popular in the newly defeated South than he was in the North. Yet only thirty years later, his name was synonymous with evil and destruction in the South. Here, historian Wesley Moody examines these perplexing contradictions and how they and others function in past and present myths about Sherman. Demon of the Lost Cause reveals the machinations behind the Sherman myth and the reasons behind the acceptance of such myths, no matter who invented them. In the case of Sherman's own mythmaking, Moody postulates that his motivation was to secure a military position to support his wife and children. For the other Sherman mythmakers, personal or political gain was typically the rationale. In tracing Sherman's ever-changing reputation, Moody sheds light on current and past understanding of the Civil War through the lens of one of its most controversial figures.--From publisher description
ER  -