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Sherman's Atlantic Campaign and his March to the Sea, destroyed the South (mainly Georgia). The Union burned thousands of homes, crops and stores. The South's industry, agriculture, as well as the important Georgia railroads were devastated. It destroyed Georgia which ultimately brought down the Confederacy.

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