He carried out punitive raids on civilians in Georgia and South Carolina, whose capital, Columbia, was burned down, allegedly on purpose.
Atlanta, Georgia
He burned Atlanta to the ground.
Sherman
General Sherman destroyed everything in his path. It was a scorched earth strategy.
He destroyed everything in his path
He destroyed every thing in his path to weaken the Confederate army.
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.
Atlanta, Georgia
William Sherman general of the union in the battle of Sherman's March to the sea destroyed all of Confederacy's resources and they eventually gave up. They surrendered and Sherman had a victory.
The State of Georgia.
Under the direction of General US Grant, General William T. Sherman, led a campaign that captured and destroyed Atlanta in 1864. Shortly thereafter he began his infamous "March to the Sea". Sherman's troops destroyed all they could so that Southern forces could not salvage supplies from Sherman's campaign. At that point in time the war, Lincoln, Grant and Sherman believed that "total war" was the fastest way to end the US Civil War. There was a good deal of controversy over the humanity of the devastation that Sherman's troops laid on Georgia.
William Tecumseh Sherman