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It caused Sherman to change the whole course of his campaign.

Grant's orders to Sherman were to pursue the Army of Tennessee into the mountains. But Sherman's supply-line was so vulnerable that he did not think he could achieve this.

That was why he re-considered his whole plan, and decided to ignore the Army of Tennessee - wisely leaving it to George Thomas - while he himself embarked on punitive raids on the farms and railroads of Georgia on the way to relieving the blockade-runners' port of Savannah.

This shortened the war by months at almost nil casualties.

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