Sherman
as their property
They stole the South's weapons and destroyed all of their resources.
The March to the Sea
General William T. Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman
He destroyed everything his army marched through. The South lost transportation lines, homes, civilians, and a lot of destroyed property. It left the Confederacy in ruins
William Tecumseh Sherman
William T. Sherman. And then he went on and did the same in South Carolina.
The main elements for the South in the US Civil War ended in a disaster. After four years of waging war to gain its independence, the South lost over 300,000 men and huge losses in property that the war destroyed.
The general trend of isotherms is typically from north to south. Isotherms show lines of equal temperature, so they tend to shift in a north-south direction due to the tilt of the Earth's axis and the distribution of sunlight across latitudes.
He carried out punitive raids on civilians in Georgia and South Carolina, whose capital, Columbia, was burned down, allegedly on purpose.
Sherman's path was a kind of "scorched earth" policy, as whatever the Union armies did need for their own use was destroyed. During the siege, a fire destroyed 2/3 of Columbia, South Carolina. Sherman had all of the remaining public buildings destroyed as well.