<span>Sherman's "March to the Sea" followed his successful Atlanta Campaign of May to September 1864. He and the Union Army's commander, Lt. Gen.
Ulysses S. Grant, believed that the Civil War would come to an end only
if the Confederacy's strategic, economic, and psychological capacity
for warfare were decisively broken.</span>
"A malaria epidemic in Charlestown, which caused general confusion throughout Carolina, may have influenced the timing of the Rebellion."
They intended to damage the u.s. fleet so badly that by the time it could be rebuit they would have uncontested control of all of asia and the south pacific
