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OpenStudy (aware09):

General William T. Sherman's "March to the Sea" was important to the Union war effort because A) it placed the Mississippi River under Union control. B) it convinced Great Britain to stop supporting the Confederacy. C) important railroad tracks were destroyed, severing supply lines for Confederate forces. D) Robert E. Lee was forced to surrender his forces as a direct result of Sherman's victory.

OpenStudy (wwhitlock):

Vicksburg gave the Union control of the Mississippi. Great Britain stopped supporting the South after Antietam Atalanta was burned, railroad lines ripped up to cut supply lines to the rebels. From Atlanta Sherman's march to the sea was mostly a physchological victory for the Union. Sherman went from Atlanta to Savanah taking whatever they needed only burning buildings of people who opposed them. At Savanah, Sherman prepared to head north doing the same thing until he met up with grant. The idea of Sherman's "Total War" was to make the rebel people feel the consequence of war. Lee was being overwelmed militarily and was losing the support of the people and so, he surrendered.

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