(A) In search of runaway slaves
(B) ** to try to split up the Confederacy
(C) to free the slaves
(D) to gather supplies for the soldiers
EXPLANATIONS BELOW
Concept note-1: -This campaign, known as Sherman’s March to the Sea, was marked by its objective, to cripple the Confederacy’s ability to wage war. They destroyed anything and everything important to the war effort, leaving ruins where Georgia’s great cities once stood.
Concept note-2: -The purpose of Sherman’s March to the Sea was to frighten Georgia’s civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause. Sherman’s soldiers did not destroy any of the towns in their path, but they stole food and livestock and burned the houses and barns of people who tried to fight back.
Concept note-3: -On November 15, 1864, U.S. forces led by Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman burned nearly all of the captured city of Atlanta, Georgia. This event occurred near the end of the U.S. Civil War during which 11 states in the American South seceded from the rest of the nation.
Concept note-4: -As Sherman had done in Georgia, he also hoped in South Carolina to destroy railroads, supplies, and morale. He saw poetic justice in unleashing his forces upon the state that seceded first and had been the site of the war’s first shots.