Sherman's march to the Sea
Title: Sherman’s March to the Sea
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This paper describes a campaign that helped decide the American Civil War. A General of the Union army named William Tecumseh Sherman helped lead a campaign that started in Georgia go the sea in Savannah, and finish to help aid the main forces in the Carolinas. During this march the soldiers lived off the land and the Southern people’s food and burning anything that could be of military use to the South’s forces. This march helped decisively end the war, and struck many blows to the South’s forces and its people’s morale, that Sherman’s army could march unopposed through the South.
Title: Sherman’s March to the Sea
The American Civil War started in 1861 after the Southern States in America started to secede from the Union. The states that seceded later formed the Confederate States of America. The war had been brought on by many hostilities and differing views on opinions of slavery and the election of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in 1860. To help end the civil war the Union would have to extend the war to people of the South as expressed in a letter to Henry Halleck from William Sherman (Miers, 1951): . . . this differs from European wars in this particular: we are not only fighting hostile armies, but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war, as well as their organized armies. I know that this recent movement of mine through Georgia has had a wonderful effect in this respect. Thousands who had been deceived by their lying newspapers to believe that we were being whipped all the time now realize the truth, and have no appetite for a repetition of the same experience. To be sure, Jeff. Davis has his people under pretty good discipline, but I think faith in him is much shaken in Georgia, and before we have done with her South Carolina will not be quite
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This paper describes a campaign that helped decide the American Civil War. A General of the Union army named William Tecumseh Sherman helped lead a campaign that started in Georgia go the sea in Savannah, and finish to help aid the main forces in the Carolinas. During this march the soldiers lived off the land and the Southern people’s food and burning anything that could be of military use to the South’s forces. This march helped decisively end the war, and struck many blows to the South’s forces and its people’s morale, that Sherman’s army could march unopposed through the South.
Title: Sherman’s March to the Sea
The American Civil War started in 1861 after the Southern States in America started to secede from the Union. The states that seceded later formed the Confederate States of America. The war had been brought on by many hostilities and differing views on opinions of slavery and the election of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in 1860. To help end the civil war the Union would have to extend the war to people of the South as expressed in a letter to Henry Halleck from William Sherman (Miers, 1951): . . . this differs from European wars in this particular: we are not only fighting hostile armies, but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war, as well as their organized armies. I know that this recent movement of mine through Georgia has had a wonderful effect in this respect. Thousands who had been deceived by their lying newspapers to believe that we were being whipped all the time now realize the truth, and have no appetite for a repetition of the same experience. To be sure, Jeff. Davis has his people under pretty good discipline, but I think faith in him is much shaken in Georgia, and before we have done with her South Carolina will not be quite
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