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Principally U.S. Grant. Sherman owed his promotion largely to his personal friendship with Grant. Later he reflected "I looked after him when he was drunk, and he looked after me when I was mad."
In may of 1864 general grant ordered general sherman to march his army out of chattanooga into Georgia.
The Civil War ended shortly after Richmond fell in April 1865. General Lee surrendered to General Grant at Appomattox Court House and General Johnston surrendered to General Sherman. After Richmond fell, John Wilkes Booth decided to kill President Abraham Lincoln, because he wanted to strike back in the only way he could.
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Atlanta. This was not meant to be his objective. Grant had simply told him to destroy the Army of Tennessee, but he had not managed to achieve this. Meanwhile it was election year, and Lincoln needed some victories in a hurry. So Sherman took Atlanta, and the North felt a bit less war-weary.
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grant major goal at richmond were to win at richmond.
Ulysses Sherman Grant died in 1932.
Ulysses Sherman Grant was born in 1867.
It headed towards Savannah, where he was able to make contact with the U.S. Navy and send news to Washington for the first time in five weeks. Grant then wanted him to ship his army to Virginia, to join him in the Siege of Petersburg. But Sherman persuaded him to let him continue his punitive raids in South Carolina, the state that had started the war.
Grant occupied Richmond after the surrender of Lee, when hostilities had ceased in Virginia and the war was notionally over, although Johnston had not yet surrendered to Sherman and a few small operatons continued West of the Mississippi.
General William T. Sherman urged the new lieutenant general, US Grant to avoid going to Washington DC and to command troops in Virginia. Sherman was concerned about the political situation in the Union's capital, and how that could influence Grant's military plans.Sherman believed that Grant could command the Union armies from the West, where Sherman believed was the key to victory. From Grant's comfort zone in the West he would be able to successfully march into Charleston and Richmond as well. Most importantly was the political advice he gave to Grant. He reminded Grant that as general in chief, that as far as he was concerned, Grant was the true legitimate successor of George Washington. Any defeats that Grant might suffer would cast doubt on Grant's abilities. Sherman believed that Grant had to preserve his prestige and let him strike from the West Chattanooga.
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When Sherman's troops left Vicksburg they headed east to prevent Johnston's troops from reaching Vicksburg. Sherman was a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He served under Ulysses Grant.
It was not unnecessary. It shortened the war by months. It was, however, the very opposite of what Grant had ordered Sherman to do. Sherman's orders were to destroy the Army of Tennessee, wherever it might be. He had consistently failed to do this, and when he captured Atlanta (also not part of Grant's plan), the Army of Tennessee got out safely and headed North. Fortunately, Sherman carried high credibility with Grant, who eventually endorsed this new idea of punitive raids on the Georgia farmland that was the bread-basket of the Confederacy. As for the Army of Tennessee, that was completely routed in December by George Thomas at Nashville.
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Sherman to move from Chattanooga into Georgia and capture Atlanta Or more correctly, to destroy the Army of Tennessee. When Sherman failed to do this, he captured Atlanta instead, as a big, visible gesture that would impress the North and help Lincoln to win the election. (The Army of Tennessee escaped and headed North to take on George Thomas at Nashville, where it came to grief.)