North Across the River: A Civil War Trail of Tears - Softcover

Cook, Ruth Beaumont

 
9781575871660: North Across the River: A Civil War Trail of Tears

Synopsis

Far from a dry chronicle of battles and campaigns, this book brings a lesser-known chapter of Civil War to life and allows a rare glimpse into the lives of the courageous migrant workers who lived it. In 1864, when General William Tecumseh Sherman ordered the arrest and deportation of the southern cotton-mill workers out of their homes, their journey north began. Destitute and separated from family members, many of the cotton-mill workers were never able to * home again.

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