Yes.
It vividly demonstrated to all parties that the Confederacy was too weak to survive.
The recent good harvest in this rich farm country enabled Sherman's army to live off the land, and ignore the persistent dangers to their supply-line.
What they couldn't eat, they burned, so the Confederate armies were soon on short rations.
And the civilian population were so demoralised that they actually urged the troops to cross the river and ravage their sister Confederate state of South Carolina, which had started the war.
Sherman was, of course, happy to do just this.
It was a successful attempt to speed the end of the war by attacking the farms and railroads, helping to starve the troops in the field. The two states were Georgia and South Carolina.
The Civil War, depsite what most people believe, was not started over slavery. It was actually started over the election of the the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. Slavery only played a part of the role in the Civil War. Slavery affected the Civil War because many slaves came in to help the North win the Battle, which did not help. In the end the Civil War basically ended slavery, or abolished it.
It was to protest racial discrimination and segregation in the war and defense industries.
The Civil War led to the end of Slavery.
Many slaves had served in the Civil War. There were about 4 million slaves under bondage by the end of the Civil War.
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My mom said they burned houses and people in them killing as much as every Pearson in rackdale and that was the end of the civil war
November 15th/16th to December 22nd 1864
It started in Chattanooga and ended in Urbana Illinois.
The March to the Sea ended with the capture of Fort McAllister and the seize of Savannah GA on Dec. 13,1865.
Sherman's March, from Atlanta to Savannah, took place over about six weeks in the Autumn of 1864. It was not just a single day's event.
to end the civil war
It was a successful attempt to speed the end of the war by attacking the farms and railroads, helping to starve the troops in the field. The two states were Georgia and South Carolina.
General Sherman's "March To The Sea" concluded in Savannah, Georgia on December 21st, 1864 when the Mayor of Savannah, Dr Richard Arnold, surrendered to General John Geary in return for a promise of safety from the same fate as that which occurred during Sherman's infamous march through Atlanta.
U.S. Grant - appointed General-in-Chief in March 1864.