Grant
There were too few Confederates there to pose any threat. When he reached Savannah, it looked as though there might be a battle with the small Confederate force under General Hardee. But they escaped across the river. Total Union casualties in the whole crossing of Georgia were only about 100.
William Tecumseh Sherman
There were approximately 3,500 slaves in Georgia in 1760. By 1780, there were over 20,000 slaves working on plantations across the state.
After he abandoned his attempt to pursue the Army of Tennessee, he turned South-East from Atlanta and crossed Georgia to Savannah, from where the Confederate General Hardee escaped across the river into South Carolina (saving the fine city of Savannah from a hammering.) Sherman soon followed him into South Carolina, the state that had started the war, and burned down the capital, Columbia. The war ended soon after Sherman crossed into North Carolina.
What was sherman's goal in taking his army across Georgia?
Grant
There were too few Confederates there to pose any threat. When he reached Savannah, it looked as though there might be a battle with the small Confederate force under General Hardee. But they escaped across the river. Total Union casualties in the whole crossing of Georgia were only about 100.
After the Battle of Atlanta, Gen Sherman began his march from there and advanced across Georgia and ended at Savannah. He then turned north and marched through South Carolina and into North Carolina.
General William T. Sherman.
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He destroyed everything in his path
General sherman.
William Tecumseh Sherman
Major General William Tecumseh Sherman, US Army.
The mountain chain that stretches across north Georgia is the Appalachian Mountain chain.
He took his Army through Georgia to destroy and annihilate all Georgia's military and civilian infrastructures and conquest Savannah, taking from the rear the Confederate defensive system of the so called "Atlantic Fortress".