The Union Army's March to the Sea Through Georgia Under

question 151

Multiple Choice

The Union Army's march to the sea through Georgia under General Sherman was notable because

• A) the northern soldiers engaged in an orgy of rape and murder of civilians.
• B) it ended with Sherman's army bogged down in trench warfare much like what was to come in the First World War.
• C) the soldiers inflicted total destruction on the land and its economic resources.
• D) the army foolishly blundered into several Confederate ambushes and suffered needlessly heavy casualties.

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