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Why did general sherman undertake his "march to the sea

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to inflict so much damage that Georgians would call for an end to the war

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Sherman's March to the Sea, all the more formally known as the Savannah Campaign, was a military crusade of the American Civil War led through Georgia from November 15 to 21 of December year 1864 by General William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army.
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