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The rehearsal for the March to the ocean. With nov Vicksburg to Union makes in mid-1863, the Federals started out work to increase and consolidate their hang on the lower Mississippi Valley. As a part of this course of action, Major Basic William Tecumseh Sherman lay out from Vicksburg on Feb 3, 1864, with an army of some 25,000 infantry and a battalion of cavalry. They expected to be joined up with by another Union push moving south from Memphis and reinforced themselves off the land as they traveled scheduled east across Mississippi. Sherman came into Meridian on Feb 14 and extensively destroyed its railroad facilities, munitions vegetation, and egyptian cotton stores, before time for Vicksburg. Though not really a particularly effective advertising campaign in conditions of enemy military captured or killed, it includes a rich possibility to observe this large-scale raid presaged Sherman's Atlanta and Carolina promotions, revealing the transformation of Sherman's proper thinking.
