General William Tecumseh Sherman’s 37 week march through Georgia led to the destruction of properties and supplies, within cities and towns that the army had no use of after they used other supplies, to frighten the confederate government into surrender.
General Sherman’s “scorched earth policy” was most dramatically shown during and after the Battle of Atlanta.
I'm a Virginia historian and legal expert who is related to individuals who rode on the Mayflower ship, American founding father George Mason IV, three Union veterans from the U.S. Civil War, two of whom marched with General Sherman to Atlanta, two Confederate veterans, and President Theodore Roosevelt’s and Franklin Roosevelt’s family.
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