(2005) The March by EL Doctorow
Author:EL Doctorow [Doctorow, EL]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2009-12-01T15:01:07+00:00
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When hugh pryce, who had come over for the
London Times, applied for a correspondent’s credentials with the Army of the West, he found himself interviewed by no less a figure than General William Tecumseh Sherman. Sherman hated journalists—they had the nasty habit of describing what the army was doing so that anyone, including a secesh general, could read about it in the newspaper. But most of all he hated English journalists. Your damn cotton markets have financed the South, he said to Pryce. If I hadn’t taken Atlanta when I did, Parliament would have come into this thing. Never mind your letter of employment, for all I know you’re a damned spy. You’ll file no dispatches while this army is on the march.
Pryce was flattered by the General’s distrust. He was an adventurous young fellow and got right into the campaign, wandering through the ranks and managing often to find himself on the skirmish line. He lived comfortably in the field, thinking nothing of the hardships. Of course he was no spy. He had dutifully kept his notes until Savannah was taken. There the ban on dispatches was temporarily lifted and he burned up the wires with his stories. Now, with the army on the march northward, Pryce was reduced once more to jotting his notes and stuffing them in his pockets. 214 • E. L. Doctorow
Though he looked forward to the next chance to cable his accounts, he was thinking more of the book he would write when he returned home. The fact was that he loved this war in America. These provincials excited him, the sixty thousand of them swinging a thirty-milewide scythe of destruction across a once bountiful land. Most of the men he spoke with, even junior officers, were not terribly articulate: the South had to be punished, the niggers had to be freed was the usual level of discourse. And he found them childish in their adoration of their “Uncle Billy.” (God help the poor sod of a yeoman who addressed Cromwell as Uncle Ollie.) But they were intrepid. He had seen them build bridges, dismantle railroad lines, overrun entrenchments, and maintain a pace of ten to fifteen miles a day regardless of the terrain or the weather.
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