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Destroy farms and railroads to wreck the Southern economy, starve their armies in the field, and devastate civilian morale.

It meant that he could live off the land and forget his long and vulnerable supply-line which had been a major worry. And there weren't many Confederate troops in Georgia to present any risk to his men.

The March to the Sea clearly shortened the war by months at almost nil casualties.

Curiously, Sherman was not especially proud of his March to the Sea, and he did not think it merited a triumphal song like 'While we were marching through Georgia' - something he got sick of anyway, as they would play it wherever he appeared for the rest of his life.

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