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He turned East from Atlanta and launched a campaign of destruction on the rich farmland of Georgia. This attacked the 'soft underbelly' of the Southern war-effort, taking the Confederate armies another step towards starvation, and evastating Southern morale.

There is no question that it shortened the war.

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