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They don't remember what happened to South Carolina the last time they succeeded?
After Sherman captured Savannah, Georgia, the culmination of his march to the sea, he marched his army north through the Carolinas, destroying everything of military value along the way. Sherman was particularly interested in targeting South Carolina, the first state to secede from the Union, for the effect it would have on Southern morale and to punish what he considered the traitors who started this rebellion.
Sherman's Carolina Campaign, in which his troops marched 425 miles (684 km) in 50 days, was similar to his march to the sea through Georgia, although physically more demanding because of marching through swamps in the winter rainy season by cutting down trees to make "corduroy roads" at a dozen miles a day. The primary Confederate force in the Carolinas was the battered Army of Tennessee, again under the command of General Joseph E. Johnston (who had been relieved of duty by Confederate President Jefferson Davis during the Atlanta Campaign against Sherman). Sherman's forces smashed Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's army at the Battle of Bentonville in March, 1865, forcing its surrender in April that represented the loss of the final major army of the Confederacy.
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