Union Blockade of Ga's Coast
The blockade was critical in ending the war. Now this wasn't just of Georgia's coast it was a blockade of all the southern coastlines. By the year 1862 the Union had put them selves around the South's most important ports for exporting goods. The most important one for the state of Georgia was the port of Savannah, which the North stressed that they block all shipments going in and going out. The South countered and put more troops around the railroad lines fearing the would be the next thing the Union would go for. The Fingal was a ship that Edward C. Anderson had and did not get caught. But this was probably more of a negative to the South than the North because it exposed the holes in their blockade so from then on very few ships were able to escape with out being captured.
Sherman's Atlanta Campaign
The Atlanta Campaign was very risky, if William Sherman were to do this it would create a whole new strategy that the world had never seen before. There were four reasons why Sherman believed he could win: 1) More troops 2) Efficient supply system 3) More moral that Confederates and 4) He knew the general he was facing was really unaggressive. These reasons were good enough for Lincoln to approve Sherman's advance. Sherman captured the city buy flanking around Atlanta and then destroying the railroad lines that were coming into city so it was cutting all the supply lines from going into Atlanta. So thus making the Conferederate General Johnston retreat.
Battle of Atlanta
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