My mom said they burned houses and people in them killing as much as every Pearson in rackdale and that was the end of the civil war
the Phoenix. atlanta was burned to the ground during shermans march to the sea. Atlanta has emerged as the new capital of the south.
I think 2100 union soldiers died/were wounded and roughly 1000 confederacy soldiers died/were wounder --summer =)
In its' day, it represented "Total War", just as the Atomic Bomb did in WWII.
shermans march to the sea was to stop souther infastructure with that ruined the north would be able to defeat the south because he would take any supply line to the south. Sherman's March started in Atlanta, Georgia on 15 November 1864 and ended in Savannah, Georgia on 22 December 1864. The purpose was to stop the supply routes between North and South.
Sherman's March to the Sea
Savannah
1864
March to Sea
From Atlanta to Savannah
no one
Savannah
savannah
Georgia
1864
Georgia
About 400 kilometres.