AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 1865
SHERMANS MARCH TO THE SEA
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The Savannah beach
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the city of Savannah, GA
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All of the food they stole from the confederates
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Confederate soldiers that would be taken hostage
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Detailed explanation-1: -Telegram from General William T. Sherman to President Abraham Lincoln announcing the surrender of Savannah, Georgia, as a Christmas present to the President.
Detailed explanation-2: -His Excellency President LINCOLN: I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with 150 heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about 25, 000 bales of cotton.
Detailed explanation-3: -On December 22, 1864, Union General William T. Sherman presents the city of Savannah, Georgia, to President Abraham Lincoln. Sherman captured the city after his famous March to the Sea from Atlanta.
Detailed explanation-4: -Sherman’s army marched 285 miles (458 km) east from Atlanta to the coastal town of Savannah, which surrendered without a siege. Sherman’s 37-day campaign is remembered as one of the most successful examples of “total war, ” and its psychological effects persisted in the postbellum South.
Detailed explanation-5: -Lincoln didn’t just visit central Texas; he also visited the Mississippi Delta, the Kentucky Pennyroyal, and the Georgia Piedmont.