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Part VII, Chapter 90.
'Part VII, Chapter 90.' by Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall (1876-) From: This country of ours; the story of the United States by Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall (1876-) New York, George H.
CHAPTER 90 LINCOLN–SHERMAN'S MARCH TO THE SEA–LINCOLN RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT GRANT'S plan of action was twofold, and while he was fighting Lee Sherman was fighting the second Confederate army under General J.E.
At the beginning of the campaign Sherman's army was at Chattanooga in Tennessee, and while Grant was fighting the battle of the Wilderness, he began his march to Atlanta, Georgia.
Fighting all the way, the Confederate army always retreating before him, he slowly approached Atlanta.
At length on September 2nd he entered and took possession of it.
Here for a few weeks the soldiers rested after their arduous labours.
Then preparations for the next campaign began.
All the sick and wounded, extra tents and baggage, in fact every one and everything which could be done without, was sent back to Tennessee.
For the order had gone forth that the army was to travel light on this campaign.
None but the fit and strong were to take part in it, and they were to carry with them only three weeks' rations.


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I had just last week read the personal diary of Emily LeConte of the burning of Columbia and Sherman's march to the sea.
I was very disappointed at the slant of this program.
I found several erroneous statements, one being that Sherman and his troops did no destruction to Savannah.
I have visited the cemetery where the Union troops were 'housed' in Savannah;where they emptied crypts for the soldiers to sleep in out of the cold; where they dug up bodies and burned them for heat; where after Sherman left, bodies could not be matched to the tombstones, so the entire cemetery wall is lined with the markers.
Sherman should really be considered the conqueror of the south because he did not change their hearts or thoughts.
I am totally disgusted with the lack of information obtained from journals, books, letters, etc.
you should have used in your program Sherman's March to the Sea.
It would appear to the casual viewer that his actions were justified and the south 'deserved' the treatment they received.
What about the rape, torture, and murder of innocent women and children both black and white? What about the women and children at Roswell Mill in Georgia who were forced on trains to be sent up north to never have been heard from again? What about the fact that Sherman, Grant, and Lincoln were all racist to the extreme and made comments to support it? Grant did not free his slaves until after the war.There is a multitude of documentation to these facts.

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Telegraph Blogs: Sport: Kevin Garside: March 2007: Sun, Sea and Formula One
Kevin Garside is in his fourth year as motor sport correspondent for The Daily Telegraph.
A wandering minstral of sports reporting, Kevin came to us via football, cricket, tennis and boxing as well as Formula One, fields he had ploughed with varying degrees of success for the Daily Express, the Sunday Express and the Daily Mirror.
Known as Rocky on the beat, not for his boxing prowess, but his perceived pedigree, misguided though it is, as an Italian stallion.
Email this page RSS feed for this blog Print this page Sun, Sea and Formula One Posted by Kevin Garside at 20 Mar 07 16:12 .
Tags: Melbourne, formula one, Lewis Hamilton, Australian Grand Prix, Mike Gascoyne, Jenson Button, Fernando Alonso Garside, Garside, came the cry from across the terrace of Donovan's, a splendid, beach front eaterie looking out across St Phillip Bay..
Beaching it: Alonso and Hamilton hang out with life savers .
The voice belonged to Mike Gascoyne, chief technical officer of the Spyker Grand Prix team, who was ploughing his way through Oysters and Chardonnay at a fair old clip.
It was approaching 2pm on the afternoon of Monday March 19, 24 hours after Lewis Hamilton had begun to reshape the Formula One landscape with his thrilling podium finish on debut in Australia..

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ILGenWeb - Civil War Battles/Campaigns - Illinois Regiments in the March to the Sea
Illinois Regiments in the March to the Sea (Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia) (May 6 - September 2, 1864) Following the capture of Atlanta, Maj.
Sherman proposed a daring strike into the heart of the Confederacy.
Following Grant's example in the Vicksburg campaign, Sherman proposed to cut loose from his supply lines and move his army across Georgia to Savannah on the coast.
His forces would live off the land and destroy anything of value to the Confederacy in their path.
Sherman left approximately 30, 000 troops under Thomas to defend Tennessee against the Confederate Army of Tennessee under General John Bell Hood.
(However, Sherman was very generous in describing all of the troops left behind as combat troops.) Sherman moved up all the ammunition supplies he would need to Atlanta, and then proceeded to burn anything in Atlanta that he didn't need or that could be of use to the Confederacy.
On November 15, 1864, Sherman's Army of 70, 000 men organized into four corps started across Georgia.
Farms were looted for food, houses and farms burned, railroads torn up and destroyed.
Sherman's March to the Sea was the first example of 'modern war' taking the war to the supporting population and destroying the will of the population to resist.

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