Sherman's March to the Sea left burned barns, wrecked train tracks, and desperate families across Georgia as Union troops tried to force the Confederacy to surrender.
Sherman's March to the Sea = Civil War military operation that destroyed farms, railroads, and other property to weaken the Confederate army and break Southern civilians' will to fight
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I ruined my mother's womb in the process—my own prenatal Sherman's March.†
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Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, 2012
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They have fled from the true America, the America of atomic bombs, scalpings, hip-hop, chaos theory, cement overshoes, snake handiers, spree killers, space walks, buffalo jumps, drive-bys, cruise missiles, Sherman's March, gridlock, motorcycle gangs, and bun-gee jumping.†
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Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 1992
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Families from the country districts who had been burned out during Sherman's march and who could no longer make a living without the slaves to till the cotton had come to Atlanta to live.†
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Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, 1936
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This particular library was one of the few buildings that had survived Sherman's March and the Great Burning.†
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Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Creatures, 2009