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
Atlanta and Richmond were the two major confederate cities which were nearly burned to the ground late in the Civil War.
Atlanta & Baton Rouge
He burned Atlanta to the ground.
Atlanta Georgia. He burned the city to the ground.
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Atlanta, GA
It was destroyed by Greeks who burned the city to the ground.
Atlanta, Georgia
The inhabitant of Atlanta were forced to evacuate the city and sheltered behind the Confederate lines.
It became a city and was burned to the ground a few months later on 13 June 1886.
No-one, because the city of Troy was burned to the ground by Agamenon and the Greeks.