DaCaptainAndMimosa In BAE KNOWS HOW TO WAKE ME UP POV
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We are learning that Sherman had our troops in Atlanta.
The news of his success set the country aglow.
Sherman drives on Atlanta, delivering Atlanta, and effectively you do have some aspects of total war.
We are about collapsing the will of the Confederate people to realize you are being defeated.
The fall of Atlanta boosts Northern morale.
People now begin to see that Union victory is, while not inevitable, at least in sight.
And it has an enormous impact on the election of 1864.
Lincoln would win the election.
What ultimately gave Lincoln that election on the battlefield was Sherman's capture of Atlanta.
This was part of Grant's grand strategy for how to bring about an end to the war.
Grant has a brilliant strategic plan.
He's going to move multiple armies simultaneously to bring about maximum pressure on the Confederacy,
while also holding down Robert E. Lee's much vaunted army of North Virginia at Petersburg.
When Grant starts to settle in at Petersburg, he sees if I put Lee into a siege, he can't move.
And a Robert E. Lee you cannot maneuver is a Robert E. Lee that's not nearly as dangerous.
So if I pin Lee, we'll eat the rest of the Confederacy while we stand here and watch this all take place.
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