In 2012, I asked E.L. Doctorow to describe William Tecumseh Sherman's infamously destructive 1864 trek from Atlanta to Savannah, Ga. Doctorow didn't answer with how Sherman's March to the Sea tore the heart, bodies and will of the Confederacy, or even with the myriad ambiguities and complexities...
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune at 07:26AM on July 24, 2015