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SHERMAN’S
MARCH
Meaning
Clusters
In
the Fall of 1863
Union
forces gained
control
of Tennessee.
Victories
at Chattanooga
and
Lookout Mountain,
allowed
the Union
to
invade Georgia.
General
William T. Sherman
outmaneuvered
several smaller
Confederate
armies.
He
occupied Atlanta.
He
employed the policy
of
“scorched earth.”
He
destroyed railroads, factories and warehouses
as
he marched
to the Atlantic coast.
His
men plundered
the
South for supplies.
Sherman
marched northward
along
the Atlantic coast.
By
February 1865,
he
took Charleston,
South
Carolina.
The
march attacked
the
will and morale
of
the South.
Sherman
believed
“total
war” defeated
the
enemy more effectively
than
winning battles.
Military
historian
Liddell
Hart called him
“the
first modern general.”
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MEMORY TRIGGERS TESTS
____________Union_______________
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___________Chattanooga__________
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_______William
T. Sherman_______
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___________________policy________
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_______destroyed_________________
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______________plundered_________
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_____________Charleston__________
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_____________________morale_____
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________________“total
war”______
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Source
US State Department
Speed Learning format by Carl Peterson ©2005
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