Atlanta.
This preceded the crossing of Georgia.
By the time they got to the other end, they were in a hurry to start ravaging South Carolina, so they spared the lovely city of Savannah. (Some say it was because Sherman had once loved a girl from there.)
Once in South Carolina, they headed for the capital - Columbia - which was left a burning heap, probably deliberately.
on the day they left. which was a while away :D
He led the Union Army of Tennessee across Georgia, crippling the Confederate supply lines. He also had a tank named after him and is still hated in Georgia and South Carolina.
The Union Army.
Many, many thousands of people joined the Union army.
Grant was commander of the union army.
Yes, the south prevents, but temporarily, the Union Army to invade Georgia.
General Sherman
The Union Army
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William T. Sherman.
William T. Sherman
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After Grant became General-in-Chief in March 1864. Grant simplified the Union strategy, and said that he would take on Robert E. Lee, while Sherman was to destroy the Army of Tennessee under Joe Johnston (later John Hood). Sherman did not succeed in doing this. But his alternative plan - crossing Georgia and the Carolinas almost unopposed - did have the effect of shortening the war.
The Union Army won the Battle of Chattanooga. The victory opened the gate for the invasion of Georgia and the campaign for the conquest of Atlanta.
In an nutshell: 1)The outflanking of the Confederate positions' on the Rappahannock by the bulk of the Army of the Potomac crossing the Rapidan at Germanna Ford, followed by the crossing the Rappahannock of Union II Corps at Bank's Ford. 2) Deployment of the aforesaid bulk behind Lee's Army at Chancellorsville. 3) Crossing the Rappahannock by Union VI and I Corps south of Fredericksburg followed by a demonstrative attack on the Confederate right wing there. The plan aimed to an encirclement of Lee's Army, forcing them fighting on two fronts, outnumbered and doomed of being destroyed or scattered.
He drowned while crossing a river, after his death his army panicked.