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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD-WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARDNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn 1864, Union general William Tecumseh Sherman marched his sixty thousand troops through Georgia to the ocean, and then up in to the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces, destroyed towns, and gathered a borne-along population of freed blacks and white refugees until all that remained was the dangerous transient life of the victorious and the dispossessed. In E. M.