title: Terrible Innocence: General Sherman at War
author:  Mark Coburn 
description: "General Sherman was like Attila the Hun, but less cuddly." With this first sentence, Coburn describes the traditional view of William T. Sherman. Maintaining that Sherman was neither Satan nor saint, he chronicles Sherman's Georgia campaign as an example. While Grant hammered away at Lee, Sherman mounted a campaign of destruction and terror with far fewer casualties during his march to the sea. History, Coburn notes, made Grant a hero while making a scapegoat out of Sherman, who preferred to destroy property rather than lives. Coburn (English, Fort Lewis Coll.) has written a balanced biography that will appeal to general readers and Civil War buffs alike. Though his book lacks footnotes and a bibliography, its concluding chapter provides a brief review of material, old and new, on "Cump" Sherman. Public and academic libraries will want this book in their Civil War collections.<br /><i>- Grant A. Fredericksen, Illinois Prairie Dist. P.L., Metamora</i><br />Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  ISBN 0-312-11011-1
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  Driving
  south
  to
  Napoleon
  Corners,
  Georgia,
  private
  detective
  J.
  Pletcher has
  a
  simple assignment: Go to the
  Corners
  General
  Store
  and
  Cafe, ask for a mint daiquiri, and wait
  for information about his next
  case.
  On the way there, his car
  is hit by a
  cannonball on
  a rural back road—his
  introduction to a world of Civil War his-
  tory, Southern manners, and murder.
  Pletcher learns that he and his part-
  ner, Raina Lambert, have been hired
  by the Johnstons, an eccentric, wealthy
  family whose oldest member believes
  he is a Confederate general. One of the
  General's grandsons has disappeared
  from the Johnston estate, and a man
  who had claimed
  to be
  a
  long-lost
  relative
  has
  turned up
  dead
  near
  Chickamauga. Pletcher and Lambert
  suspect that someone
  is trying to
  kill
  off the General's
  heirs. But as they
  investigate—each pretending to be vis-
  iting the town for different reasons—
  they realize the Johnstons aren't the
  only ones at risk. In a commu