Sherman's March to the Sea

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out.
--William Tecumseh Sherman

Sherman's March to the Sea is one of the most controversial aspects of the civil war. Ulysses S. Grant told Sherman to create chaos and to destroy resources that could benefit the Confederacy. Sherman began the Atlanta Campaign in May of 1864. After he captured Atlanta, he marched his army to the sea. On the way to the sea, the soldiers had permission to steal anything they would need from the farms of the Confederates. When he was on the borders of Savannah, he was in charge of fifty to sixty thousand men. He planned to bombard the city. Then, he continued marching up to South Carolina and afterwards, North Carolina.

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