General William T. Sherman’s March to the Sea really encompassed nearly the whole State of Georgia. Just as Jackson sought to wage war in an indirect fashion against the political will of the Union to maintain the war by near constant threats to the capitol and by typing up troops, Sherman sought to undermine the civilian population of the south in order to shirk Confederate forces in the Eastern Theater that confronted Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant in front of Richmond and Petersburg. The method by which he sought to shrink those forces was two-fold. First by threatening the women and children as well as livelihood of those on the home front, Confederate soldiers could be induced to desert the Confederate armies to get back home and
