In early October he began a raid toward Chattanooga, Tennessee, in an effort to draw Sherman back over ground the two sides had fought for since May. But instead of tempting Sherman to battle, Hood turned his army west and marched into Alabama, abandoning Georgia to Union forces. Apparently, Hood hoped that if he invaded Tennessee, Sherman would be forced to follow.
Sherman, however, had anticipated this strategy and had sent Major General George H. Thomas to Nashville to deal with Hood. With Georgia cleared of the Confederate army, Sherman, facing only scattered cavalry, was free to move south.
Sherman divided his approximately 60, troops into two roughly equal wings. The right wing was under Oliver O. Peter J. Osterhaus commanded the Fifteenth Corps, and Francis P.
Blair Jr. The left wing was commanded by Henry W. Slocum, with the Fourteenth Corps under Jefferson C. Davis and the Twentieth Corps under Alpheus S. Judson Kilpatrick led the cavalry. Sherman had about 2, supply wagons and ambulances.
Before the army left Atlanta, the general issued an order outlining the rules of the march, but soldiers often ignored the restrictions on foraging. The two wings advanced by separate routes, generally staying twenty miles to forty miles apart.
The right wing headed for Macon , the left wing in the direction of Augusta , before the two commands turned and bypassed both cities. They now headed for the state capital at Milledgeville. Although William J. Hardee had overall command in Georgia, with his headquarters at Savannah, neither he nor Governor Joseph E. The first came east of Macon at the factory town of Griswoldville on November 22, when Georgia militia faced Union infantry with disastrous results.
The Confederates suffered men killed or wounded in a one-sided battle that left about 62 casualties on the Union side. The second battle occurred on the Ogeechee River twelve miles below Savannah. Do more of your own research, then make up your mind. Write a letter or email to a friend or family member explaining your position. Use reasons and examples to support your opinion.
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Sherman presented the city of Savannah and its 25, bales of cotton to President Lincoln as a Christmas gift. Early in , Sherman and his men left Savannah and pillaged and burned their way through South Carolina to Charleston. In April, the Confederacy surrendered and the war was over. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Subscribe for fascinating stories connecting the past to the present.
William Tecumseh Sherman was a Union general during the Civil War, playing a crucial role in the victory over the Confederate States and becoming one of the most famous military leaders in U.
In the summer of , during the U. Sherman faced off against Confederate generals Joseph E. Johnston and John B. Hood in a series of battles in northern Georgia. To speed the defeat of the Confederacy, Union forces needed to prevent Southern civilians from supplying their armies. The Northern military needed to wage war against both the Confederate military and Confederate civilians. To break the will of the Confederate population, Sherman proposed a March to the Sea.
Sherman would take the remainder of his army of sixty-two thousand men from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia, on the Atlantic Ocean. General Ulysses S. Grant and President Abraham Lincoln opposed this plan at first, but Sherman convinced them of its importance. Sherman left Atlanta with his sixty-two-thousand-man army on November 15, As the Northerners began their mile march south and east to Savannah, Hood led his Confederate army on a raid into Tennessee. As a result of Hood's action, fewer than five thousand Confederate soldiers under General Joseph Wheeler stood between Sherman's army and Savannah.
Sherman left behind his supply train. He decided that he would permit his men to supply themselves from civilians along the march.
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