In November 1864, sixty-two thousand Union forces readied themselves to depart from Atlanta. Under the command of William Tecumseh Sherman, these soldiers would engage in the most brutal, ruthless, devastating and effective military campaign of the Civil War, and possibly of history. Their mission was to cut a path across Georgia of complete destruction and beat the southern forces and spirit into submission of the war. Sherman's march to the sea would be the turning point …
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