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Um... Atlanta was burned to the ground and was completely rebuilt from its ashes, earning the name "The City of the Phoenix." It also allowed for all the cities in the South that were destroyed to be rebuilt with future technology (ie cars) in mind causing less parking congestion than in many northern cities.

  • In 1865 the automobile hadn't even been thought of, so they did not design anything to allow for them.

Actually Atlanta was 30% destroyed - mostly factories and warehouses. The destruction of Columbia, NC was largely because of cotton fields and bales set on fire by the retreating Confederates. The South surrendered after Lincoln was assassinated. Since Lincoln was not there to oversee the surrender agreement, the South was "taught a lesson" and very badly treated. This caused very hard feelings against the North - some would say still exists today. Civilian Southeners lost faith in their soldiers, believing that they would protect them and their borders from the Union soldiers.

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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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