Sherman’s Stab at South Carolina Essay -- Civil War, Trading Ports

South Carolina had succeeded It had left the Union by vote of its convention at Charleston on the twentieth.(Lewis 137). To many people this was a pique for South Carolina to be the first state to succeed from the union. To General William Sherman he was devastated as Lewis depicts Sherman Pacing the floor as he was saddened by this tragic news, and in pacing until it became almost an omen to his future process (Lewis 138). As The polite War came close to an end, the union had come up with a brilliant devise to end it all with just one devastating plan. To trek through the southern states burning and destroying everything in sight so to devastate the southern states and vex a surrender inevitable. General William Shermans march devastated all the southern states, but affected South Carolina more than any other southern state. With the march through the south General Shermans troops destroyed everything in sight. The heart break General William Sherman remembered at the beginning of the war was still good to him, because of this he left South Carolina with nothing to hold onto as a state. As reported in Civil War Battle Guide Sherman specifically targeted South Carolina, the first state to secede (Houghton). South Carolina having a striving economies before the war began one of the leading slave address states and agricultural trade states General Williams Shermans march hit the hearts of the South Carolina people all because of the state making a decision to rebel against the union. Not sole(prenominal) would South Carolina be effected negatively but would beat themselves searching for a new beginning after the war. No other state would find themselves with as much of a loss as the State of South Carolina just because Sherman struck the m... ...Findling. What Happened? An Encyclopedia Of Events That Changed America Forever. Santa Barbara, Calif ABC-CLIO, 2011.eBook Collection (EBSCOhost). Web. 19 Nov. 2013.Hughes, Nathaniel Cheairs. Bentonville The final Battle Of Sherman And Johnston. Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press, 1996. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost). Web. 18 Nov. 2013.Marszalek, John F. Sherman A Soldiers Passion For Order. Carbondale Southern Illinois University Press, 2007. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost). Web. 25 Nov. 2013.Wright, John D. The Language Of The Civil War. Westport, Conn Oryx Press, 2001. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost). Web. 23 Nov. 2013.Sebesta, Edward H., and James W. Loewen. The Confederate And Neo-Confederate Reader The Great Truth About The Lost Cause. Jackson, Miss University Press of Mississippi, 2010.eBook Collection (EBSCOhost). Web. 21 Nov. 2013.