There was no battle in the end, because the small Confederate army under Hardee managed to escape across the river into South Carolina.
The story goes that Sherman spared Savannah from destruction because he had once loved a girl from there. But either way, there would have been no benefit in wreaking further mayhem in Georgia by that time. He'd made his point on the suffering Georgians, and it was time to move into South Carolina (which had started the whole war) and put the boot into them.
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The battle of saratoga
There was no battle of Savannah in the Civil War. Sherman was expecting one, but the small Confederate army escaped across the river.
This was a humorous reaction to the end of the March to the Sea, when Sherman was able to contact Grant and Lincoln for the first time in six weeks (because the wires had been cut), and he discoveed on December 24th that the Confederates had fled from Savannah, so there wouldn't be a destructive battle in that beautiful city. To celebrate the re-occupation of Savannah, he jokingly offered it to Lincoln as a Christmas present.
the battle ended in 1825
American: General Robert Howe British leader: Archibald Campbell Leader of British troops in America: Henry Clinton