On November 15,1864,Major General William T.Sherman of the Union Army,started the March to The Sea to capture the port of Savannah.The march started in the captured city of Atlanta,Georgia.When he and his soldiers marched, there was no extra supplies,everyone considered it revolutionary in the annals of war.During the march,Sherman destroyed many union targets, such as transportation networks. Sherman therefore planned an operation that has been compared to the modern principles of burned ground warfare, or total war. Even though his formal orders specified control over destruction of infrastructure in areas in which his army was not molested by guerrilla activity, he recognized that supplying an army through liberal foraging would
