426. Marching through Georgia
Destroying the mils and factories of Atlanta , Sherman set out for the seashore . He had sixty thousand men with him . They were al veterans and marched along as if on a hol - iday excursion . Spreading out over a line of sixty miles , they gathered everything eat - able within reach . Every now and then they would stop and destroy a railroad . This they did by taking up the rails , heating them in the middle on fires of burning sleepers , and then twisting them around the near - est trees . In this way they cut a gap sixty miles long in the railroad communication between the half - starved army of northern Virginia and the storehouses of southern Georgia . On December 10,1864, Sherman reached the sea . Ten days later he captured Savannah and presented it to the nation as a Christmas gift . Sherman and Thomas be - tween them had struck a fearful blow at the Confederacy . How had it fared with Grant ?
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