PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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retaliate for lives lost in the battle of Chickamauga.
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force Georgia troops to return home to defend Georgia.
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destroy resources used by the South, end civilian support for the war effort, and shorten the war.
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punish the South for seceding from the Union and forming the Confederacy.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Atlanta’s Roundhouse 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-2: -After seizing Atlanta, Union Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman embarked on a scorched-earth campaign intended to cripple the South’s war-making capacity and wound the Confederate psyche. Sherman’s army marched 285 miles (458 km) east from Atlanta to the coastal town of Savannah, which surrendered without a siege.
Detailed explanation-3: -Through October, Sherman built up a massive cache of supplies in Atlanta. He then ordered a systematic destruction of the city to prevent the Confederates from recovering anything once the Yankees had abandoned it.
Detailed explanation-4: -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).