 The memory of Sherman's March became iconic and central to the "Myth of the Lost Cause" and neo-Confederates.The crisis was the setting for Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel "Gone with the Wind" and the subsequent 1939 film.Most important were many "salvation stories" that tell not what Sherman's army destroyed, but what was saved by the quick thinking and crafty women on the home front, or by a Union soldier's appreciation of the beauty of homes and the charm of Southern women.