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After the seize of Atlanta, Sherman learned that the Confederates were setting up an offensive towards Tennessee with ultimate task of hit the line of Ohio. By so doing they would endanger his exposed communication lines, but at the same time they would have left Georgia practically undefended, at the mercy of his army.From the strategic point of view the March to the Sea was the decisive factor which sped up the collapse of the Confederacy. Sherman's victorious army took strategically although not tactically from behind Lee's army and the Confederate, after having been defeated at the battle of Bentonville had no sufficient forces to prevent Sherman from invading North Carolina, capturing its Capital, Raleigh and interrupting the vital railway line Raleigh-Greensborough-Danville. So Lee's army was hopeless isolated and its surrender was but only a matter of few weeks.

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