Shawn Sawyer & Sagar Patel

Sherman’s March

William Tecumseh Sherman (clip)

Sherman’s March

Sherman’s Biography

Campaigns of the March

Causes and TacticsPopular Opinion

Effects

Study overview

“I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.”-William Tecumseh Sherman

“War is Hell.”

Sherman’s Biography

Georgia

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“I intend to make Georgia howl.”

Sherman’s Tactics

“Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.”

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Causes

“I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.”

“War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.”

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Effects

“We are going to be wiped off the earth”- Mary Boykin Chestnut

“Sherman’s neckties”

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Effects

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Campaigns

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“Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.”-William Tecumseh Sherman

Popular Opinion

“If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.”

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Other Witnesses and Accounts

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Lots of Damage and Destruction

Severely crippled the Confederacy

Conclusion

Sherman

The End

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