Sherman claimed to have inflicted $100 million in physical damage ($1.3 billion in today's dollars) though historians call this figure a guess.
The psychic damage done to the Confederacy was incalculable. He made Southerners feel that the war and individual ruin were one in the same.
The March to the Sea took barely a month and then Sherman offered Savannah to his president as a Christmas present.
Quite the Story. --Old Secesh
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