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To make punitive raids on the Georgia farms and wreck the railroads, to ruin civilian morale and starve the Confederate armies in the field.

To stay independent of his highly vulnerable supply-line.

To minimise his casualties.

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And also to attack from the rear the defences of the so-called "Atlantic Fortress" of the Confederacy

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