A history of the United States of America; its people and its institutions . Shermans March, Atlanta to Raleigh. at an end. The war in the West was of minor importanceafter this signal victory. The Exhaustion of the South.—The South was nownearly exhausted. The heavy losses in battle and the dis-persal of Hoods army had greatly decreased its fightingcapacity, while clothes, food-, and munitions of war weregrowing perilously scarce. The blockade on the coast wasso close that little could be brought in from abroad. The THE FINAL CAMPAIGNS OF THE WAR. 599 capture of Atlanta had cut off one import
A history of the United States of America; its people and its institutions . Shermans March, Atlanta to Raleigh. at an end. The war in the West was of minor importanceafter this signal victory. The Exhaustion of the South.—The South was nownearly exhausted. The heavy losses in battle and the dis-persal of Hoods army had greatly decreased its fightingcapacity, while clothes, food-, and munitions of war weregrowing perilously scarce. The blockade on the coast wasso close that little could be brought in from abroad. The THE FINAL CAMPAIGNS OF THE WAR. 599 capture of Atlanta had cut off one important source ofsupply. Another was soon to be lost, Shermans March through Georgia. — DisregardingHoods northward march, Sherman left Atlanta about themiddle of November, and, cutting loose from all commu-nications, started with his army of sixty tliousand veteran?. Shermans Mapck to the Sea. on a long march across the State of Georgia. For a monthhe and his army were lost to sight. They were out of thereach of telegraphs and railroads, living on the country asthey passed, and Christmas -was at hand before the anxiousNorth heard of them again. ^ Three scouts, who left the Union army just before it reached Sa-vannah, brought the first news of Shermans safety. They hid in therice swamps by day and made their way doAvn the river at night. Pass-ing Fort McAllister unseen, they were picked up by the blockading 400 THE CIVIL WAR. The army, divided into four columns, with cavalry andskirmishers in front, had moved through three hundredmiles of fertile territory, destroying railroads and suppliesthroughout a belt sixty miles wide. In late December theyappeared before Savannah, having performed one of themost remarkable feats in modern military history, andruined one of the principal sources of the enemys mili-tary supplies. On the 21st, Savannah was capt
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