AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 1865
SHERMANS MARCH TO THE SEA
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He was the Confederate general who tried to invade the North twice but failed.
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He was the appointed governor of Georgia during Reconstruction.
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He was the Union general who conquered Atlanta and marched all the way to Savannah.
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He was the Union general who finally defeated Robert E. Lee and forced him to surrender.
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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: -From November 15 until December 21, 1864, Union General William T. Sherman led some 60, 000 soldiers on a 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia. The purpose of Sherman’s March to the Sea was to frighten Georgia’s civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -Sherman’s March to the Sea was an American Civil War campaign lasting from November 15 to December 21, 1864, in which Union Major General William Tecumseh Sherman led troops through the Confederate state of Georgia, pillaging the countryside and destroying both military outposts and civilian properties.
Detailed explanation-5: -General Sherman was born February 8, 1820, and named William Tecumseh after the great Shawnee leader but acquired the nickname “Cump” from his siblings. He was the sixth of eleven children born to Judge Charles and Mary Hoyt Sherman.