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On November 15, 1864 Union Major General William Tecumseh Sherman led over sixty-thousand soldiers on a march to the sea to, hopefully, break the will of the south. His path of destruction and sorrow began in the captured city of Atlanta Geogia and continued to the port of Savannah. As he progressed, he and his soldiers destroyed crops, ate the civilians food, killed livestock, took civilian possessions, then burned their homes leaving them homeless and with nothing to support thereselves. This, in turn, caused many hard ships for the South. They couldn't be shipped supplies because many of those things were destroyed and as they refused to give up the generals considered that if they kept going then they would certainly lose more land to General Sherman and his "total war" thought. So, after considering this they decided to quit or surrender to save what little they had left. This was a very successful, but costly, plan by the North.