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On the Union side, it was Sherman, aided by the popular General McPherson who was killed in the battle for Atlanta.

On the Confederate side, the shrewd and cautious General Joseph E. Johnston had been replaced by the heroic but foolhardy John Hood, who managed to get his army out of the city, but then led it to disaster.

Meanwhile Sherman had decided to ignore him and attack the infrastucture that supported the Confederate armies in the field.

Although this was the very opposite to what Grant had planned, it turned out highly successful - reducing the enemy to starvation, while costing almost nil battle casualties.

The only sizable Confederate army in Georgia was the one occupying Savannah, commanded by General Hardee. He escaped across the river into South Carolina. It is worth noting that the supposedly ruthless Sherman did not feel it necessary to destroy that gracious city before he went in pursuit of Hardee.

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