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Name: ____________________________________ Date: ______________________ Period: _____________

|Directions: Read the following information about Sherman and his march to |

|the sea. Does the text agree or disagree with the following statements? |

|Agree |Disagree |Text Structure |

| | |On November 15, 1864, Sherman’s troops torched |

| | |strategic areas of Atlanta, including rail |

| | |stations, warehouses, and city offices, after |

| | |forcibly evicting the city’s civilian population. |

| | |Lincoln was not nervous about the tactics Sherman |

| | |proposed and had full confidence in his ability to |

| | |lead. |

| | |Sherman’s men were to destroy only those things |

| | |considered valuable for the war effort. |

| | |Sherman’s march to the sea was not meant to |

| | |deliberately intimidate the civilian population of |

| | |the south only to make them stop supplying the |

| | |Confederacy with supplies. |

| | |Sherman did NOT approve of looting and wastage |

| | |carried on by his men as they stripped the |

| | |countryside. |

The Ending of the Civil War

← Sherman’s March to the Sea was a ______________ _________________ begun by the _____________ soldiers during the American Civil War in late 1864, and was led by Major General ___________________________________.

On November 15, 1864, Sherman’s troops torched strategic areas of Atlanta, including rail stations, warehouses, and city offices, after forcibly evicting the city’s civilian population. The fire inevitably spread, destroying whole sections of Atlanta’s residential areas and beginning the destruction that was to follow as Sherman marched an army of 60,000 toward the Atlantic coast.

Lincoln confessed he was extremely nervous about the tactics Sherman proposed—to cut through Georgia’s richest agricultural areas, not just to destroy stockpiles of staple food, kill livestock, and take war material useful to the Confederacy but also to deliberately intimidate the civilian population. Washington, D.C., insiders like Edwin Stanton were horrified by Sherman’s style of command and his raggedy army of slouching “bummers,” who failed to meet public standards of spit and- polish military style.

Nevertheless, Sherman deployed his men in three columns, over a 60-mile swath, falling on more than $100 million in resources, including rail lines, stands of timber, livestock herds, and cotton stores. Technically, Sherman’s men were to destroy only those things considered valuable for the war effort and to leave the possessions of slaves alone. Sherman did personally oversee destruction in retaliation for local sabotage, burning the houses nearest any wrecked roads, bridges, or ferries, and he became infamous for winking at the additional personal looting and wastage carried on by his men as they stripped the countryside like a huge swarm of locusts.

His March on Atlanta

← On _________________________, Major General Sherman’s men began burning the city of _________________.

← On ____________________ he left Atlanta with his 60,000 soldiers and continued his march toward the Atlantic coast.

← Chief among Sherman’s targets were _________________ where his men twisted ties into “___________________________________”

In ________ during the March, Sherman’s army destroyed __________ in, he cut the supply and ____________ ___________, including __________, __________ _________, and ___________ ____________ to the north. Sherman’s army set off on a devastating march.

|Sherman’s March to the Sea |

|General Sherman moved his army _________in ______________ great wings of two |Anything of military value was ___________. |

|corps each complete with a 5,000 man cavalry screen. |______________, or groups of stragglers, destroyed all ____________ __________ |

|The Federal troops left a path of destruction _________ miles long and up to |and _______________ that they could not carry-off or use. |

|_________ miles wide across the Georgia countryside. |No Confederate opposition was encountered. |

What did Sherman give to Lincolm as a Christmas Gift?

1. _________________________________________

2. _________________________________________

3. _________________________________________

4. _________________________________________

The ___________ was shipped to the North were it sold for $_____ Million dollars. The south now had no way of __________ ___________ to rebuild after Sherman’s destructive plan.

Homework: Create a commemorative marker in honor of those who lost their lives in the Civil War. You must include at 8-10 sentence explanation describing this war and what this commemorative marker represents.

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Total War Was….

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“You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses people can pour out.”

—William Tecumseh Sherman Letter to the city of Atlanta, 1864

← Sherman arrived at Savannah in December, offered it as a “___________ ___________” to Lincoln, got resupplied by the sea, and headed north to combine with Grant.

My Dear General Sherman,

Many, Many thanks for your Christmas gift—the capture of Savannah. When you were about leaving Atlanta for the Atlantic coast, I was anxious, if not fearful; but feeling that you were the better judge, and remembering that “nothing risked, nothing gained,” I did not interfere.

Now, the undertaking being a success, the honor is all yours; for I believe none of us went further than to acquiesce. And taking the work of Gen. Thomas into the count, as it should be taken, it is indeed a great success. Not only does it afford the obvious and immediate military advantages; but, in showing to the world that your army could be divided, putting the stronger part to an important new service, and yet leaving enough to vanquish the old opposing force of the whole—Hood’s army—it brings those who sat in darkness to see a great light. But what next? I suppose it will be safe if I leave Gen. Grant and your-self to decide. Please make my grateful acknowledgments to your whole army—officers and men.

Yours very truly

A. Lincoln

Sherman’s March

← Sherman marched across Georgia in what came to be known as the __________ to the ____.

← Sherman cut a swath of destruction ________ miles long and 50–60 miles wide.

← After taking _________, Sherman turned _________ through ________ _______, destroying civilian property all along the way.

The Fall of Richmond

← As Sherman marches on to meet up with ___________, Lee is low on supplies and soldiers.

← __________decided not to wait for ____________troops.

← Instead, he broke through Lee’s defenses at Petersburg and went on to take _______________.

← ___________ tried to escape with his few remaining troops, but ___________ blocked their way.

← Lee saw no other alternative but to _________________.

Lee and Grant

← With Union forces surrounding them, Lee decided to surrender.

← _________ presented the terms of the surrender to ___.

← _________ showed ___________ on the Confederate forces and was extremely generous for such a bloody conflict, Lee’s troops merely had to turn over their __________ and ____________.

Grant announced:

“The ________ is over. The __________ are our _____________ again.”

The war is over

← News of Lee’s surrender brought ___________ ____________ in the north.

← Lincoln requested “__________” be played at the White House.

← The last of the Confederate forces surrendered on ______________________

← Sadly, President Lincoln would not live to see the official end of the war.

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