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To carry out punitive raids on the farms and railroads that supplied the Confederate armies in the field.

He saw that he and his army could live off the land (following a good harvest) and become less dependent on their long and vulnerable supply-line.

When they reached the sea, they could liberate the blockade-runners' port of Savannah, depriving the South of further war supplies.

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