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Stephen Davis's recent book, What the Yankees Did to Us: Sherman's Bombardment and Wrecking of Atlantaexplores one of the saddest chapters of the Civil War: the end of the Atlanta campaign and the devastation of the City of Atlanta.

The Trust recently had a chance to talk with Davis about his work.

Civil War Trust: First of all, this is a pretty provocative title. How did you come up with it?

Stephen Davis: A product of much rumination.

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One of the benefits of taking a long time to write a book is that an author can reflect on just what it is he wishes to say. I think that telegraphing one’s intent to prospective readers is appreciated by them (and by the publisher, who tends to like catchy titles).

More fundamentally, I'm an Atlantan, and when I speak of "us" I really mean the physical city of 1864 as much as the people who lived in it.

Our city’s seal continues to show a phoenix rising from the fires of the Civil War. The Yankees