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of the south, but sherman is far from the savage he's made out to be. he understands before anyone just how horrific the world will become, and his campaign of terror is an attempt to bring about peace more quickly. now, after sherman's capture of atlanta, he'll usher a new kind of warfare where no one, not even the citizens, are safe. >> this evacuation order is too cruel, general. >> war is cruelty, and there is no refining it. >> one of the largest railroad and manufacturing centers in the south, atlanta is a critical hub for the confederacy. sherman orders an evacuation of the city, punishing the rebel civilians and crippling the confederacy's ability to make war. >> well, i want peace, gentlemen, but it can be only achieved through union and war, and those of you who brought war into this country deserve all the curses the people can put forth!
is brutal. >> in this realm of total war, it has to be recognized that sherman, although maybe a little bit bloodthirsty, was extremely effective in accelerating the end of the conflict. >> with sherman unleashing hell on the birthplace of secession and ulysses s. grant deadlocked with lee in petersburg, lincoln's top generals leave their posts to meet with the president. >> what news? >> columbia is burned, and it burned good. >> i must admit, i feared this plan of yours, general. i did little else than acquiesce. >> i had not in my mind but to force peace. >> when lincoln first meets sherman, he dismisses him as little more than a conspiracy theorist. now sherman is one of lincoln's
>> war for jefferson davis! >> hey, what happened to the agreement? please, let him go! >> missouri was a mess because on one hand, it sticks with the union, but it is a slave state, and you have those who are preaching secession, preaching rebellion, and it creates this civil war within missouri, neighbors against neighbors. it's chaos. >> unable to escape the horrific war that only he sees coming, sherman enters the fray prepared to do whatever it takes to end the rebellion and bring about peace. but in sherman's eyes, peace will only come by making the people of the south really feel the wrath of war. >> mayor? >> it is astonishing that a man whose prescient analysis of union unpreparedness was once dismissed by president lincoln, a man whose superiors deemed him
the nation has been savagely torn apart by war with no end in sight. from the beginning, william sherman warns both sides of a prolonged suffering, and now, the union general is prepared to do whatever is necessary to bring an end to the war and save the union. >> i can make this march and make georgia howl. >> sherman has a tremendous resentment that the southerners have caused this in his eyes, and he says, "i'm going to make these people in atlanta feel it," and he burns it to the ground. >> concerned about any unnecessary suffering proposed by sherman's march to the sea, president lincoln turns to ulysses s. grant for reassurance. >> how well do you know sherman? >> i know sherman better than any man in the army. he will not fail us. he gave us a chance at victory when he to atlanta, so we have to seize
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