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It was the bread-basket of the South, because of its rich farmland - as Sherman noticed when he made his new plan to despoil the farms and demoralise the civilians.

But the Confederate leaders had trouble keeping Georgia loyal, because its Governor believed that Georgian troops should be used only for the defence of Georgia itself, and not be recruited into the Army of Tennessee or the Army of Northern Virginia.

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