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Atlanta and Richmond were the two major confederate cities which were nearly burned to the ground late in the Civil War.
Sumter was a tiny Union enclave in the harbour of a Confederate city within a Confederate state.
On Apr.3, 1865 the avant-gards of Gen. Weitzel's US XXV Army Corp were entering the city, which had already been evacuated and set on fire by the retreating Confederate troops.
Crops - all the food they couldn't eat was burned, to help starve the Confederate troops in the field.
Charleston, South Carolina