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Because his supply-line was over-stretched and he told Grant that he would not be able to pursue the Army of Tennessee into the mountains.

Instead, he decided to conduct a punitive raid on Georgia, living off the land as he went, burning farms and wrecking railroads, to help starve the Confederate troops in the field.

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