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This Union General is perhaps most famous for his "march to the sea" through Georgia and South Carolina in 1864.

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It was a military campaign led by General William T. Sherman. He was at the command of a 285-mile march by 60,000 Union soldiers from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia. The goal was to frighten the civilian population of Georgia to compel the state to abandon the Confederate cause.

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