Part one of term paper
E-mail: klotzsta@pilot.msu.edu Sherman’s March In November of 1864, Major General William Tecumseh Sherman cut a 300-mile long, 60-mile wide corridor of destruction across the Confederate State of Georgia. He burned every thing in his path. He torched plantations, bridges, crops, factories, and mills. The goal of this war of attrition was ...

Part two of term paper
... in its path? Also, what did Sherman’s troops think about the highly destructive march? Part One The following quote form Jim Miles book To the Sea: A History and Tour Guide of Sherman’s March, gives a brief example of how both sides felt about the march. To people of the North it was a triumphal procession in which right prevailed and an evil rebellion and its institution were destroyed. To the South, it was the ultimate cruelty-a cowardly war against innocent civilians, an act so desp ...