General William Tecumseh Sherman began an incredible journey from Atlanta to Savannah with sixty thousand personally selected men on October 1, 1864. After a few brutal months, they finally reached Savannah after two hundred and eighty five miles of misery. The purpose of this famous “March” was to frighten the civilians of Georgia into abandoning the Confederation. They marched toward the south in two wings approximately thirty miles apart. On December 20, Sherman’s troops began to organize into their formation and started for Savannah. About ten thousand Confederate men were waiting at the outskirts of Savannah lead by General William Hardee. Sherman’s forces raided the rice field. He was low on supplies so he sent out General O. Howard and
