An excerpt from “Sherman’s March from Savannah to Bentonville.” From Battles and Leaders of the Civil War.
BY UNION MAJOR GENERAL HENRY W. SLOCUM
The fall of Savannah resulted in the adoption of the plan which Sherman had contemplated. In a letter dated December 24th Sherman says:
“Many and many a person in Georgia asked me why I did not go to South Carolina, and when I answered that we were en route for that State, the invariable reply was, ‘Well, if you will make those people feel the utmost severities of war we will pardon you for your desolation of Georgia.'”
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