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By crossing Georgia virtually unopposed, they had demonstrated that the Confederacy was dying on its feet.

South Carolina was the state that had started the whole war, and Sherman was keen to start punitive raids on SC, confident that the small Confederate army under Hardee, which had escaped there, was no threat to him.

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