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@KendrickLamar2014

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Let me get the picture

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OK

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@KendrickLamar2014 can you help..? Or @BlossomCake can you too?

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Give me a sec...

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KK :)

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Sherman, copying Grant’s 1863 Vicksburg Campaign, decided to cut loose from his railroad. With but 60 locomotives and 600 freight cars, it was hard pressed to provide the 130 ten-ton carloads of freight needed every day. He sent a third of his force back to Thomas to hold Tennessee, and stripped the brigades down to the bare essentials; the men each carried a five day supply of hardtack. Better food would be acquired along the way. The famous "March from Atlanta to the Sea" represented a new kind of warfare. Apart from a few ineffective militia units, Sherman encountered no serious opposition. He lived off the country, which because of the transportation breakdowns was bursting with food that could not be moved. His army consumed what it needed, and destroyed the rest. Advancing in two fronts, each 10 to 30 miles wide, Sherman cut a swath through 200 miles of one of the South's richest agricultural districts.
Confederates had discussed using the “Fabian” tactic of scorched earth, last used by the Russians against Napoleon in 1812--destroy everything first, so Sherman would starve. That was impossible because Sherman, not tied to a supply line, could head in any direction he pleased. "Having alternatives, I can take so eccentric a course that no general can guess my objectives." He used statistical data provided by the census to select the fattest counties to despoil. In 26 days his soldiers wreaked $100 million worth of damage, proving conclusively that, as Sherman famously said, "War is Hell."
The swath of destruction was a deliberate refutation of the rebel argument that the Confederacy could never be defeated because it was so large and agriculturally rich. Sherman's March exposed the basic Confederate quandary: their nation was too large to defend. The political goal of preserving slavery necessitated defense of all the territory, since once the Federals passed through the system of slavery was doomed. Many blacks fled the plantations to join the Union armies; a larger number were evacuated by their masters before the Federals arrived. Knowledge that freedom was imminent undercut the automatic obedience that the slave regime required.
Grant hoped that Sherman's threat would force Robert E. Lee to abandon Richmond and rush south to intercept Sherman. Grant indeed had set a trap: if Lee moved, Grant had his entire army ready to chase him down. If he did not move, Georgia would be ruined and the Confederacy would be proven to be but a shadow nation, its armies failures, its men impotent. Lee did not move.

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That was his Strategy ^

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@k_lynn

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OS is a bit laggy

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Ken, i don't understand it only has to be 2 or more sentences

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Wait...

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Sherman decided to cut loose from his railroad, which was a huge move. Sherman's threat would force Robert to abandon Richmond, which if he did, he would be ready to chase him down.

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That is 11 right

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Yes, that is 11

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now for 12

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12. After the Civil War, many people faced Racism and many slaves didn't know there were free until a long time. Also, those who were free still had to work for there "masters" because they didn't have a job or any education.

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thank you!!

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you're the best

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Also, the Freedman's Bearu helped slaves become free. But, they didnt have any education/jobs.

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Your Welcome :)