The day after President Lincoln was reelected on Nov. 8, Union General William T. Sherman planned a measure to end the Civil War once and for all. Half his forces marched north, to defeat the Confederate army in Tennessee. The rest marched from Atlanta to Savannah, destroying anything that could possibly support Southern armies as it went.
The idea was to wage war on the Confederacy’s morale as well as its capability. Here, in full, is Sherman’s Field Order Number 120.
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