Carefully assembled from Union and Confederate records and memories by a general who commanded troops under Sherman, this is an exciting and detailed account of General William Tecumseh Sherman's historic march to the sea. Jacob Cox knew and served with many of the major figures of the Civil War. He writes of them here as he saw them and spoke with them. Later the Governor of Ohio and a congressman from that state, Cox was a prolific writer after the war and had a talent for capturing the gritty details.