The damage caused by Sherman's March to the Sea through Georgia in 1864 was limited to a swath, but neither Lincoln nor his commanders saw destruction as the main goal, but rather defeat of the Confederate armies.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea – Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's Union Army troops reach the outer Confederate defenses of Savannah, Georgia.

The story is set in Clayton County, Georgia and Atlanta during the American Civil War and Reconstruction, and depicts the experiences of Scarlett O ' Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner, who must use every means at her disposal to come out of the poverty she finds herself in after Sherman's March to the Sea.

An image of " the South " was fixed in Mitchell's imagination when at six years old her mother took her on a buggy tour through ruined plantations and " Sherman's sentinels ", the brick and stone chimneys that remained after William Tecumseh Sherman's " March and torch " through Georgia.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea – Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta, Georgia to the ground in preparation for his march south.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: Confederate General John Bell Hood invades Tennessee in an unsuccessful attempt to draw Union General William T. Sherman from Georgia.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Sherman's March to the Sea.

Union Army General William Tecumseh Sherman's ' March to the Sea ' in November / December 1864 destroyed the resources required for the South to make war.

* November 15 – American Civil War – Sherman's March to the Sea begins: Union General Sherman burns Atlanta and starts to move south, causing extensive devastation to crops and mills and living off the land.

* November 22 – American Civil War – Sherman's March to the Sea: Confederate General John Bell Hood invades Tennessee in an unsuccessful attempt to draw Union General Sherman from Georgia.

November 15 | Nov. 15: Sherman's March to the Sea.

* December 4 – American Civil War – Sherman's March to the Sea: At Waynesboro, Georgia, forces under Union General Judson Kilpatrick prevent troops led by Confederate General Joseph Wheeler from interfering with Union General Sherman's campaign of destroying a wide swath of the South on his march to Savannah, GA ( Union forces suffer more than 3 times the casualties as the Confederates, however ).

At the end of this campaign, known as Sherman's March to the Sea, his troops captured Savannah on December 21, 1864.

Sherman's final significant military engagement was a victory over Johnston's troops at the Battle of Bentonville, March 19 – 21.

Sheet music for " Sherman's March to the Sea "

Some of the artistic treatments of Sherman's march are the Civil War era song " Marching Through Georgia " by Henry Clay Work ; Herman Melville's poem " The March to the Sea "; Ross McElwee's film Sherman's March ; and E. L. Doctorow's novel The March.

The presentation of Sherman in popular culture is now discussed at book-length in Sherman's March in Myth and Memory ( Rowman and Littlefield, 2008 ), by Edward Caudill and Paul Ashdown.

While the final combat of the campaign was being worked out at Jonesborough, Thomas, on Sherman's instructions, ordered Slocum, now commanding the Twentieth Corps, to make an effort to occupy Atlanta if he could do so without exposing his bridgehead to a counterattack.

The fossilized, formalized, precedent-based thinking of the legendary military brain was not evident in Sherman's armies.

One of Sherman's most serious shortcomings, however, was his mistrust of his cavalry.

Rank was becoming an explosive issue in all three of Sherman's armies.

Sherman's capture of Atlanta in September and David Farragut's capture of Mobile ended defeatist jitters ; the Democratic Party was deeply split, with some leaders and most soldiers openly for Lincoln.

The results at the end when comparing Sherman's diary to Wilkins was that " Seventy-five per cent were found to be correct ".

Sherman's march to the sea was one of the first times America experienced total war, and advancements in military technology, such as iron and steel warships, added to the destruction.

Wallace chose to take the " upper " path, which was much less used and considered in better condition, and which would lead him to reinforce the " right " side of Sherman's last known ( initial ) position at Shiloh Church.

According to the author Garry Boulard in his book Abraham Lincoln Ascendent, it was Sherman's 1859 endorsement of the controversial anti-slavery book, The Impending Crisis of the South, written by Hinton Helper, that doomed Sherman's chances of becoming Speaker.

To Sherman's great displeasure and sorrow, one of his sons, Thomas Ewing Sherman, joined the religious order of the Jesuits in 1878 and was ordained as a priest in 1889.

This was a new regiment yet to be raised, and Sherman's first command was actually of a brigade of three-month volunteers, at the head of which he became one of the few Union officers to distinguish himself at the First Battle of Bull Run on July 21, 1861, where he was grazed by bullets in the knee and shoulder.

In Sherman's case, this was in part because he developed close personal ties to Grant during the two years they served together in the West.

Sherman's military record in 1862 – 63 was mixed.

Sherman's effort was overshadowed by George Henry Thomas's army's successful assault on the center of the Confederate line, a movement originally intended as a diversion.

In July, the cautious Johnston was replaced by the more aggressive John Bell Hood, who played to Sherman's strength by challenging him to direct battles on open ground.

Local Native American Lumbee guides helped Sherman's army cross the Lumber River, which was flooded by torrential rains, into North Carolina.

General Sherman's record as a tactician was mixed, and his military legacy rests primarily on his command of logistics and on his brilliance as a strategist.

Another World War II-era student of Liddell Hart's writings about Sherman was George S. Patton, who "' spent a long vacation studying Sherman's campaigns on the ground in Georgia and the Carolinas, with the aid of Hart's book '" and later "' carried out his plans, in super-Sherman style '".

Under the terms of the Organian Peace Treaty, Sherman's Planet would be awarded to whichever side demonstrates that it can manage it more efficiently.

After the Civil War, Sherman's Field Order No. 15 awarded St. Catherines and the other islands to freed slaves.

At Sherman's request, she rode at the head of the XV Corps in the Grand Review in Washington at the end of the war.

* Photographic views of Sherman's campaign, from negatives taken in the field, by Geo.

Under the auspices of Sherman's field order, Campbell ruled from the Button Gwinnett House from 1865 until 1867.

* Sherman's March ( 2007 film ) documentary

Sherman's March: A Meditation on the Possibility of Romantic Love In the South During an Era of Nuclear Weapons Proliferation is a 1986 documentary film written and directed by Ross McElwee.

* Sherman's March ( 2007, documentary )

* Sherman's March ( 2007 documentary ).