AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 1865
SHERMANS MARCH TO THE SEA
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Confederacy
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Union
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Detailed explanation-1: -William Tecumseh Sherman, (born February 8, 1820, Lancaster, Ohio, U.S.-died February 14, 1891, New York, New York), American Civil War general and a major architect of modern warfare. He led Union forces in crushing campaigns through the South, marching through Georgia and the Carolinas (1864–65).
Detailed explanation-2: -By 1862, however, he had been promoted to major general following his efforts at the Battle of Shiloh and was in charge of the Union occupying forces in Memphis, Tennessee, throughout 1862.
Detailed explanation-3: -Military situation. Sherman’s “March to the Sea” followed his successful Atlanta Campaign of May to September 1864. He and the Union Army’s commander, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, believed that the Civil War would come to an end only if the Confederacy’s strategic capacity for warfare could be decisively broken.
Detailed explanation-4: -In August 1864, he was promoted to major general. He commanded the Division of the Mississippi on his “March to the Sea” through Georgia in late 1864. In 1865, he led the Armies of the Ohio, Tennessee and Georgia in the final operations of the South, receiving the Confederate Southern forces’ surrender in April 1865.