Industrial Age · North America · War
1864
Sherman's March to the Sea
November 15, 1864
After burning Atlanta, William Tecumseh Sherman cut his army loose from its supply lines and marched sixty thousand men through three hundred miles of Georgia, eating as they went. "War is cruelty," he wrote, "and you cannot refine it." He took Savannah at Christmas and presented it to Lincoln as a gift.
In context
Also in 1864 (5 other events on record)
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Before and after in North America
Before and after in War
- Before: July 4, 1863: Vicksburg Falls
- After: April 9, 1865: Appomattox
Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.