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William T Sherman did the march to Columbia. The march to Columbia isn't as recognized as the march to the sea, but it was also very destructive. These two marches were what you call total war which is were you take things you need and destroy the rest. This was what mostly devastated the south by the end of the war.
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It was a remarkable strategy that shortened the war by months, at almost nil casualties. Its immediate importance was psychological - a deep humilation that devastated Southern morale.
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Crops - all the food they couldn't eat was burned, to help starve the Confederate troops in the field.
Gen. Sherman during his March to the Sea and Cavalry Gen. George Stoneman during his 1865 Carolina Raid, whose saying was: "Leave Nothing to the Rebellion to Stand Upon"
The salt which is present in sea water will kill most crops.
Sherman's March to the Sea
Sherman wasn't a battle, he was a General. He was notable for his March to the Sea (Atlanta to Savannah) in November-December 1864 - a punitive raid which devastated the Southern economy and shortened the war by months at almost nil casualties.
March into the Sea was created in 2004.
The cowardly march of Sherman from Atlanta to St. Augustine, burning everything in his path, including food and livestock that the lone women needed, devastated Georgia and the South. After Sherman's devastation of Georgia, he later stated that "was is hell." Well, he was in a position to know that for sure.
As a whole, it would be the effect of the Union military victory in the Civil War. More specifically, it would be individual campaigns within the war, such as Sherman's March to the Sea, which devastated Georgia in late 1864.