By trying a completely new strategy after the capture and burning of Atlanta.
After a brief and unsuccessful attempt to pursue the Army of Tennessee through the mountains, as ordered by Grant, Sherman turned South-East and laid waste to the rich farmland of Georgia, with almost no Confederate troops to stop him.
This was an attack on the infrastructure that supported the Confederacy, and it shattered civilian morale. (After endorsing the new plan, Grant said "Make Georgia howl" - and it did.)
Few could doubt that this shortened the war by months.
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He marched his troops through the south, stole some horses for his men then shot all the horse and men fighting for the south. but he did not kill any innocent men, women or children.
After the crushing defeat of Georgia and South Carolina and the hands of Sherman, the south had a big decrease in morale. ChaCha!
Sherman's "March to the Sea"
Sherman's March to the Sea shortened the war by at least six months, at almost nil casualties.
It weakened the South's agricultural capacity.
Major General William T. Sherman was a leader fighting for the North or Union side.