<P> Sherman 's March to the Sea , more formally known as the Savannah Campaign , was a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia from November 15 to December 21 , 1864 by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army . The campaign began with Sherman 's troops leaving the captured city of Atlanta on November 15 and ended with the capture of the port of Savannah on December 21 . His forces destroyed military targets as well as industry , infrastructure , and civilian property and disrupted the Confederacy 's economy and its transportation networks . Sherman 's bold move of operating deep within enemy territory and without supply lines is considered to be one of the major achievements of the war . </P>
<P> Sherman 's March to the Sea , more formally known as the Savannah Campaign , was a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia from November 15 to December 21 , 1864 by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army . The campaign began with Sherman 's troops leaving the captured city of Atlanta on November 15 and ended with the capture of the port of Savannah on December 21 . His forces destroyed military targets as well as industry , infrastructure , and civilian property and disrupted the Confederacy 's economy and its transportation networks . Sherman 's bold move of operating deep within enemy territory and without supply lines is considered to be one of the major achievements of the war . </P>
who was the union general who burned a path of destruction through georgia
who was the union general who burned a path of destruction through georgia
William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman