. The new eclectic history of the United States . J. B. Hood. and then the Shermans march to the sea.: 33i material of war had been derived, was a fatal blow to theblockaded Confederacy. 558. Shermans March to the Sea.—Hood pushed northwardinto Tennessee, expecting that Sherman would follow this was no part of the Federal plan. Leaving generalsSchofield and Thomas to complete the destruction of Hoods. The March to the Sen. army, Sherman 3 burnedAtlanta, and moved rap-idly toward the sea withhis army of 60,000 in four columns,living upon the countryas they went, tearing upand
. The new eclectic history of the United States . J. B. Hood. and then the Shermans march to the sea.: 33i material of war had been derived, was a fatal blow to theblockaded Confederacy. 558. Shermans March to the Sea.—Hood pushed northwardinto Tennessee, expecting that Sherman would follow this was no part of the Federal plan. Leaving generalsSchofield and Thomas to complete the destruction of Hoods. The March to the Sen. army, Sherman 3 burnedAtlanta, and moved rap-idly toward the sea withhis army of 60,000 in four columns,living upon the countryas they went, tearing upand twisting iron rails soas utterly to destroy railway connections, the conquering armyleft a track of desolation sixty miles in width behind it. Nogreat resistance was met with, for all able-bodied men were inthe Confederate camps. The South had put forth her lastefforts, and the Confederacy was indeed an empty shell. 559. The city of Savannah was abandoned, after Fort Mc-Allister had been taken by storm, and it was occupied by
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