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Because he did not feel confident of being able to pursue and destroy the Army of Tennessee in difficult mountain country (as ordered by Grant), while his long supply-line was so vulnerable.

That was why he devised the alternative plan - make punitive raids on the Georgia farms, starve the Confederate armies, meanwhile live off the land, forget the supply-line, and wreck the railroads to ruin the Confederate economy, before finally liberating the blockade-runners' port of Savannah.

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