Sherman Last Days of the Confederacy: Sherman in the Carolinas

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In the early months of 1865, William Tecumseh Sherman's name came to embody the embattled Confederacy's worst fears. Sherman left Georgia devastated in December 1864, and then turned his forces northward to begin the Carolinas Campaign—an offensive that caused the collapse of the Confederacy's Western forces and removed nearly all hope of Southern victory.

In the December 31, 1864, entry of her diary, Columbia, South Carolina, resident Emma Florence LaConte writes, "Georgia has been desolated. The resistless flood has swept through that state, leaving but a desert to mark its track … They are preparing to hurl destruction upon the State they hate most of all, and Sherman the brute avows his intention of converting South Carolina into a wilderness. Not one house, he says, shall be left standing, and his licentious troops—whites and negroes—shall be turned loose to ravage and violate" continued: https://docsouth.unc.edu/highlights/sherman.html

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