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Madness, Genius, & Sherman’s Ruthless March

Posted on February 13, 2012 by David Dobbs · 18 Comments

 In 1864, in a radically risky move crucial to winning the Civil War, William Tecumseh Sherman led his army of some 80,000 men to Atlanta, burned it to the ground, and then marched to the coast of South Carolina, destroying almost all in his path. It was a wild, improbable gambit: He meant to and did […]

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