The Bonfire: The Siege and Burning of Atlanta

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Overview

The Bonfire is the epic story of the besieged city and its townspeople, and of how Atlanta came to be the key to the South. The most terrible city siege in American history took place in Atlanta in 1864.

Nothing was quite what it seemed in Civil War Atlanta: Sherman, who made Georgia howl, was as unreconstructed a racist at the end of the war as at the beginning; Union troops and Confederate forces laughed and sang together from opposite ends of the Chattahoochee River before slaughtering each other in the hellacious final conflict; Atlanta's Mayor Calhoun remained a staunch believer in the Union despite waging war against it; and a handful of slaves-like Bob Yancey, who surrendered the city to Sherman's forces alongside the town's leading citizens-exited the war freed of slavery's yoke, and among the wealthiest citizens of a devastated city that would become the engine of the New South. With the compelling, interwoven, and often surprising life stories of a colorful cast of characters, Marc Wortman recreates the age, city, and siege where the Confederacy met its destiny.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781586488192
  • Publisher: PublicAffairs
  • Publication date: 6/1/2010
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 464
  • Sales rank: 421,529
  • Product dimensions: 5.60 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 0.80 (d)

Meet the Author

Marc Wortman

Marc Wortman is the author of The Millionaires’ Unit: The Aristocratic Flyboys Who Fought the Great War and Invented American Air Power, now in development as a feature film. An award-winning freelance writer, his work has appeared in numerous national magazines. He has taught literature and writing at Princeton University. He lives in New Haven with his wife, daughter, and son.

Table of Contents

Maps ix

Introduction 1

I Frontier

1 Flags 5

2 Virginians 11

3 Removal 23

4 Sherman in the Swamp 35

5 Another Passage 45

6 The Compromise 53

II Gate City

7 The Cornerstone 69

8 Earthquake 85

9 Never! Never!! Never!!! 111

10 Speculation 125

Photos Following 144

11 Street Theater 145

III Clamorous Town

12 The Dead House 155

13 Enemies Within 165

14 River of Death 181

15 A Day's Outing 193

IV The Hundred Days' Battle

16 Railroad War 203

17 Candle Ends 213

18 Fighting, Fighting, Fighting 219

19 Roman Runagees 229

20 Prayers 237

V The Thief in the Gloaming

21 A Perfect Shell 255

22 The Battle of Atlanta 271

Photos Following 284

VI War Is Cruelty, and You Cannot Refine It

23 Goodbye, Johnny 287

24 The First Bonfire 301

25 The Second Bonfire 317

26 The New South 337

Epilogue: Sherman's Return 355

Notes 363

Acknowledgments 415

Photograph Credits 417

Index 419

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 14, 2010

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    The Bonfire Burns Hot and Bright

    This work is outstanding in it's presentation of the thoughts, fears and anxieties of the inhabitants of Atlanta as Gen Sherman and three Union armies virtually surrounded the city and preceeded to pummel it with shot and shell. While touching on the highlights of the battle scenes, starting with Johnston's continous retreating finally leading to his replacement by Hood, the emphasis is placed on the biographical accounts of a good variety of individuals, some who came from the North to make it rich and some whose southern blood boiled at the mere mention of the Union General's name. The internal conflict of Mayor Calhoun, who was not a secessionist but was wholeheartedly for the Confederacy's right of existence, is adeptly portrayed as he tries to balance his adherence to moral and ethical principles with the contemptuous and sometimes malicious attitudes of the authorities who seemed to know no boundries when acertaining what was required for the sucess of the southern cause. The early beginnings of Atlanta are broadly described as well as it's tranformation into one of the most commercially important cities in the south. Overall this book was a captivating read and difficult to put down until the last page was finished.

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