March to the Sea
Civil War devastation
March to the Sea refers to Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's military campaign from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia, in late 1864 during the American Civil War.
Sherman's troops cut a sixty-mile-wide path of destruction through Confederate territory, burning crops, destroying railroads, and seizing supplies.
The campaign demonstrated total war tactics and helped break Southern resistance.
Sherman's March to the Sea devastated Georgia's infrastructure.
- ShermanAmerican tank model
- scorched earthDestroy all useful resources
- burning of Atlanta1864 city's fiery destruction
- GeorgiaName shared by country and state
- Deep SouthSouthernmost American states
William Tecumseh Sherman · total war · Union Army · Reconstruction · Atlanta · Carolinas · emancipation · supply lines · psychological warfare · Savannah · railroads · logistics · Civil War · cavalry raids · Confederacy · Abraham Lincoln · Jefferson Davis · Southern plantations
March to the Seastrategic withdrawal
Calculated military retreat
Dunkirk evacuation · holding action · fighting retreat · rearguard action · fortification
March to the Seaconventional warfare
Armed conflict using standard military forces
rules of engagement · proportional response · surgical strike · precision targeting · peacekeeping mission
March to the SeaDunkirk
1940 Allied evacuation site
rout · flight · evacuation
march, marched, marching, marcher, marchers, sea, seas, seaward, seafaring