William T. Sherman:
The conquest of Georgia was entrusted to General William Tecumseh Sherman. He captured Atlanta in September 1864 and burned the city in November of that year. Sherman then later moved to Savannah where he and his men burned buildings, tore up railroads, bayoneted family portraits and ran off with "souvenirs". One of his major purposes was to destroy supplies destined for the Confederate Army and to weaken the morale of the men at the front by waging war on their homes. He was a practitioner of "total war" and was damned in the South for it. After seizing Savannah, he moved to South Carolina and destruction there was more vicious. The city of Columbia in S.C. burst into flames and by the war's end they had moved to N.C.
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