{"id":60,"date":"2008-06-18T15:49:08","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T20:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=60"},"modified":"2010-06-14T10:46:49","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T15:46:49","slug":"marching-to-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2008\/06\/18\/marching-to-the-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Marching to the Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the recent unveiling of the House Divided project, held June 13th at Dickinson College, Pullitzer prize-winning author and Civil War historian Mark Neely spoke on party politics during the 1850s. He also allowed us a brief interview, during which time we were able to get his impression on Sherman&#8217;s March to the Sea and its implication as an example of &#8216;total war.&#8217; While Professor Neely does not agree that the March was &#8216;total war&#8217; in a modern sense, Sherman used some of the fiercest tactics yet seen during the war. Indeed, Sherman hoped to have the South &#8220;&#8230;begging for mercy&#8230;&#8221; at the conclusion of his march.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2008\/06\/sherman.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-117\" title=\"sherman\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2008\/06\/sherman.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/civilwar\/shermansmarch\/\" target=\"_blank\">History Channel website <\/a>provides an interactive map, complete with audio and images, detailing the three campaigns of Sherman&#8217;s march. Principal battles of the campaigns and other events are explained, and factoid boxes provide information on little known tactics, events or other interesting things about the March to the Sea.<\/p>\n<p>An interesting, thoroughly 21st century tech exploration of this crucial military movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the recent unveiling of the House Divided project, held June 13th at Dickinson College, Pullitzer prize-winning author and Civil War historian Mark Neely spoke on party politics during the 1850s. He also allowed us a brief interview, during which time we were able to get his impression on Sherman&#8217;s March to the Sea and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,156,12,81,174],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865","category-images","category-maps","category-recent-news","category-recent-scholarship","tag-battles-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1726,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/1726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}