Sherman's March

Dear Diary,
Over this past year General Sherman has been working on his "March to the Sea". He started on it in March. The march is supposed to bring 60,000 Union troops all the way to the port of Savannah, Georgia. He and the troops started at the Tennessee-Georgia border. The men were ordered to collect supplies and destroy anything of potential value they could not bring along the way. According to the stories I have heard about Sherman's troops, they tore up tracks, vandalized homes, and destroyed buildings. I almost feel bad for the people of Georgia. Confederate troops had to abandon Atlanta when the Union troops started to close in. Once Atlanta was empty, the Union troops burned the city to the ground. By the time Sherman got to the port of Savannah in December, he had been on a 60-mile long path of destruction. Here is a video of the path that Sherman took and the destruction left behind:

That's all for now Diary,

Rebecca

"Sherman's March to the Sea." YouTube. YouTube, n.d. Web. 21 

         Feb. 2016. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlMYmJ

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