Join as The Country Bookshop welcomes Bennett Parten to discuss his book Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman’s March and the Story of America’s Largest Emancipation.

“In the fall of 1864, Gen. William T. Sherman led his army through Atlanta, Georgia, burning buildings of military significance—and ultimately most of the city—along the way. From Atlanta, they marched across the state to the most important city at the time: Savannah. As the army marched to the east, plantation owners fled, but even before they did so, slaves self-emancipated to Union lines. By the time the army seized Savannah in December, as many as 20,000 enslaved people had attached themselves to Sherman’s army…”

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