The History Channel Presents Sherman's March
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Actor: William Tecumseh ShermanBrand: A&E
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 94 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-10-30
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: A&E HOME VIDEO
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Summary: 4 Stars
This is considerably better than most Civil War films. In a rather dispassionate manner it describes and explains the significance of Sherman's march that introduced the world to the horrors of total war.
Some have called the general a war criminal who should have been prosecuted, but I've never quite understood that. The obvious criminals were those who took an oath of allegiance to the United States and its Constitution at West Point and then violated that oath by taking up arms against what they were sworn to defend. That constituted treason. Gen. George Thomas, a Union Commander and a Virginian, was chastised by a Confederate officer/prisoner after the battle of Nashville for going against his state. Thomas asked the Confederate if he remembered the oath both took at West Point, and when the man said yes, Thomas said, "Well, I kept mine." Lee did not. Johnston did not. Many others did not. And yet Sherman is accused of criminality.
My only reservation with this has to do with the Civil War re-enactors who played the roles of Sherman's men. Re-enactors always look too old, too fat, too clean and too self-conscious. By 1864 the uniforms were pretty shabby and tended to be eclectic. In fact, Sherman wore no signs of rank, lest he be the target of snipers. Look at the photographs of soldiers taken in the field in 1864--not those posed in studios for the home folks. There is a vast difference
Nonetheless, this is an accurate description of just how hellish war had become on both sides. Make it hellish enough and perhaps it will end. The March certainly shortened the Civil War, which must have seemed endless to those who were in it.
Summary of The History Channel Presents Sherman's March
General William Tecumseh Sherman s scorched-earth strategy against the South helped end the Civil War and in the process changed military strategy forever. In SHERMAN S MARCH, THE HISTORY CHANNEL explores his brutal and effective campaign, which arguably saved the Lincoln presidency, the Union, and thousands of lives on both sides--and made Sherman one of the most hated and misunderstood figures in American history.In November 1864, Sherman and an army of 60,000 troops began their month-long march from Atlanta to Savannah. Burning crops, destroying bridges and railroads, and laying waste to virtually everything in his path, Sherman moved relentlessly to the sea, crushing the South s will to fight.
Through cutting-edge CGI battle scenes and dramatizations based on contemporary sources, SHERMAN S MARCH mixes the sweep of large-scale military strategy with intimate stories of the women, the slaves, and the soldiers who fought on both sides. Shot in hi-definition, SHERMAN S MARCH is both a lavish documentary and a gripping portrait of the complicated man who coined the phrase War is Hell and came to be called the father of modern, total warfare.
DVD Features: Full-Length Documentary Sherman s Total War Tactics episode of Save Our History ; History in the Making: Sherman s March Behind the Scenes Featurette
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