Union General William Tecumseh Sherman made one of the most brilliant decisions of the American Civil War. In November and December 1964, Sherman and more than 62,000 Union troops marched from Atlanta to Savannah in Georgia, devastating the countryside, towns and cities.
Sherman aimed to “make Georgia howl” - he wanted to make the Southern civilians hate war so thoroughly that they would never want to fight another once this one ended. And if Sherman's men destroyed Southern food
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