Sherman's March started during the Civil War on November 15 from Atlanta to Savannah. General William T. Sherman led it with some 60,000 soldier on a 285-mile mach. Sherman’s March was one of the bloodiest war of all. There were so many people that lost their lives and were killed during this war. December 21, 1864 was when it ended.
In this march, Sherman led his army in Atlanta to destroy everything that was in their way. Things became so bad that most of Atlanta was burned down and left in shambles. Not only the people of Atlanta were effected, but people that they believed to be in the way were also negatively affected. Sherman was so ruthless that when he captured Savannah he treated it like it was a token instead of a part of the U.S. and gave it to Lincoln as a Christmas present. After destroying all the crops, burning houses, and destroying the cities, Sherman first stored food that was found and took anything that he believed to be of value. His cruelty and rash decisions led many Americans to think that he was insane.
Sherman had to prove to the Confederates that the government could not protect the people from invaders. Sherman believed "that by marching an army across the state he would demonstrate to the world that the Union had a power that the Confederacy could not resist." He wanted to show them what war is. He did…show more content… Soldiers that where "trained poorly, equipped, and organized." These soldiers also were on diets. Where it was just a "pound of salt pork and a few ounces of sugar." But now-a-days they have what we call MREs. During this war soldiers had to prepare their own food and they suffered for it because not many knew how to cook because their wives were responsible for it. They would get together and put forth their best cookers to make meal out of corn and meat. But the bread wasn’t bread it was called "hardtack." Where men had to soak it in water just to eat it because it was so hard to
