reestablishment of the union with ironclad guarantees for slavery including the rights of southerners to own slaves anywhere in the united states or its territory and constitutional amendment forbidding the abolition of slavery for 100 years
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it was to preserve the union... this may not the whole thing.... but I'm sure it was part of it..
No. Remember "...from Atlanta to the sea"? It was after the fall of Atlanta that he devised the plan. At the end of it, he would capture Savannah. But the real aim was to wreck the Southern economy, destroy civilian morale, and starve the Confederate armies in the field.
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The primary, the fundamental objective of the Union forces in the US Civil War was to force the South into an unconditional surrender. This meant that for all practical purposes, the Confederate forces were no longer able to defend themselves and the Confederacy.
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Sherman's March to the Sea was a military campaign whose goal was to wreck the Georgian economy by destroying all of the farms, factories, and railroad between Atlanta and Savannah. Sherman's march was an early example of total war, in which an enemy's civilian population is targeted as well as its armies.