Sherman’s “March to the Sea” ends: Major General William T. Sherman, commanding the compulsory Union Military Division of the Mississippi, reaches Savannah, Georgia. During Sherman’s March he destroyed (by his own estimates) 100,000,000 Dollars worth of property. The inability of the Confederacy to protect Georgia resulted in Georgia’s secession from the Confederate States.
Postscript: Sherman would later admit that by the conduct he authorized his troops to engage in during the March to the Sea and the Carolina’s Campaign that he was guilty of war crimes punishable by death according what he had been taught at the United States Military Academy (West Point).
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References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 185.
Sherman’s March to the Sea – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman%27s_March_to_the_Sea
Livingston – A Moral Accounting of the Union and the Confederacy
mises.org/library/moral-accounting-union-and-confederacy
Chronology Of The American Civil War
civilwarhome.com/timeline.htm
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