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Sherman and proceeded
Sherman proceeded with 60, 000 of his troops to Washington, D. C., where they marched in the Grand Review of the Armies, on May 24, 1865, and were then disbanded.
General Sherman proceeded north about two miles and " fired a few shots at the retreating rear guard " of the Confederates.

Sherman and invade
He devised a coordinated strategy that would strike at the heart of the Confederacy from multiple directions: Grant, Meade, and Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler against Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia near Richmond ; Sherman to invade Georgia and capture Atlanta ; and Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Banks to capture Mobile, Alabama.
He devised a coordinated strategy that would strike at the heart of the Confederacy from multiple directions: Grant, Meade, and Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler against Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia near Richmond ; Maj. Gen. Franz Sigel to invade the Shenandoah Valley and destroy Lee's supply lines ; Sherman to invade Georgia and capture Atlanta ; Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Banks to capture Mobile, Alabama.
Grant devised a coordinated strategy that would strike at the heart of Confederacy from multiple directions: Grant, George G. Meade, and Butler against Robert E. Lee near Richmond ; Franz Sigel in the Shenandoah Valley ; Sherman to invade Georgia, defeat Joseph E. Johnston, and capture Atlanta ; George Crook and William W. Averell to operate against railroad supply lines in West Virginia ; Nathaniel Banks to capture Mobile, Alabama.

Sherman and state
Because many forms of restraint upon commercial competition extended across state lines so as to make regulation by state action difficult or impossible, Congress enacted the Sherman Act, 21 Cong. Rec.
Sherman served under General Ulysses S. Grant in 1862 and 1863 during the campaigns that led to the fall of the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg on the Mississippi River and culminated with the routing of the Confederate armies in the state of Tennessee.
Sherman expressed concern about the North's poor state of preparedness but found Lincoln unresponsive.
Having succeeded Anderson at Louisville, Sherman now had principal military responsibility for Kentucky, a border state in which Confederate troops held Columbus and Bowling Green and were present near the Cumberland Gap.
Sherman captured the state capital of Columbia, South Carolina, on February 17, 1865.
In the election of 1912, Vice President Sherman died shortly before the election, too late for any state to remove his name for its ballot, thus causing Sherman to be listed posthumously.
The highest elevation is 1, 290 feet ( 393 m ) above sea level along the New York state line south of Branch Hill in the Town of Sherman ; the lowest point is sea level itself.
* Sherman Pass,, highest mountain pass open all year in the state
Sherman County is a county located in the U. S. state of Texas.
Sherman County is one of 30 prohibition, or entirely dry, counties in the state of Texas.
Sherman County is a county located in the U. S. state of Oregon.
From 2000 to 2007, Sherman County lost 4. 1 % of its population, the second-lowest growth rate in the state.
Sherman County is a county located in the U. S. state of Nebraska.
Sherman County ( standard abbreviation: SH ) is a county located in the U. S. state of Kansas.
Sherman and his Union armies burned the state penitentiary, vandalized the city, and held a mock session of the legislature in the statehouse to repeal the state's ordinance of secession.
Beauregard attempted to concentrate his small forces before Sherman could reach Columbia, South Carolina, the state capital.
The Sherman School was named one of the top four schools in the state of Connecticut.
Sherman Township is a civil township of Gladwin County in the U. S. state of Michigan.
Sherman Township is a civil township of Huron County in the U. S. state of Michigan.
Sherman Township is a civil township of Iosco County in the U. S. state of Michigan.
Sherman Township is a civil township of Isabella County in the U. S. state of Michigan.
Sherman Township is a civil township of Keweenaw County in the U. S. state of Michigan.

Sherman and Georgia
The practices of total war, developed by Sherman in Georgia, the experimental use of the first usable predecessor of the machine gun and of trench warfare around Petersburg, all foreshadowed World War I in Europe.
Outraged at learning that black troops had been billeted in his house in Nashville, he nullified an arrangement by Gen. Sherman to allow an abandoned coastal strip in South Carolina, Georgia and Florida be allocated to freedmen for their agricultural use.
* 1864 – During the American Civil War, Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta, Georgia.
* 1864 – Savannah, Georgia falls to General William Tecumseh Sherman, concluding his " March to the Sea ".
* 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Peachtree Creek – Near Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate forces led by General John Bell Hood unsuccessfully attack Union troops under General William T. Sherman.
* 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta – outside Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald Hill.
* 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Resaca – the battle begins with Union General Sherman fighting toward Atlanta, 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.
* 1864 – American Civil War: Confederate General John Bell Hood evacuates Atlanta, Georgia after a four-month siege by General Sherman.
* 1864 – American Civil War: Atlanta, Georgia, is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.
Though Bragg's army had not been captured, the decisive battle opened Georgia and the heartland of the Confederacy to Union invasion by Maj. Gen. Sherman.
Maj. Gen. Sherman would attack Atlanta and Georgia, while the Army of the Potomac, led by Maj. Gen. George Meade with Grant in camp, would attack Robert E. Lee's Army of Virginia.
* July 20 – American Civil War – Battle of Peachtree Creek: Near Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate forces led by General John Bell Hood unsuccessfully attack Union troops under General William T. Sherman.
* July 22 – American Civil War – Battle of Atlanta: Outside of Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate General Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General Sherman on Bald Hill.
* July 28 – American Civil War – Battle of Ezra Church: Confederate troops led by General Hood make a third unsuccessful attempt to drive Union forces under General Sherman from Atlanta, Georgia.
* August 31 – American Civil War: Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta, Georgia.
* September 7 – American Civil War: Atlanta, Georgia is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.
* 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.
During September and October, Sherman and Hood played cat-and-mouse in north Georgia ( and Alabama ) as Hood threatened Sherman's communications to the north.
Eventually, Sherman won approval from his superiors for a plan to cut loose from his communications and march south, having advised Grant that he could " make Georgia howl ".
Meanwhile, after the November elections, Sherman began a march with 62, 000 men to the port of Savannah, Georgia, living off the land and causing, by his own estimate, more than $ 100 million in property damage.
Grant then ordered Sherman to embark his army on steamers and join the Union forces confronting Lee in Virginia, but Sherman instead persuaded Grant to allow him to march north through the Carolinas, destroying everything of military value along the way, as he had done in Georgia.

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