Search for Treasure Worldwide Chapter 360: March to the ocean (please vote for me and recommend me)
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The font written on the cover of the notebook is not beautiful and has no artistic quality at all, but it can shock the United States!
Even an outsider like Ye Tian couldn't help but hold his breath when he saw this text. He felt the murderous aura soaring into the sky, and could even hear the shrill wails and screams!
This is what is written on the cover of the notebook:
"William Tecumseh Sherman, 1864, march notes, southward battle plan!"
Just this line of text is enough to shock the entire American history circle and make every scholar who studies the history of the American Civil War go crazy.
Sherman, a famous military strategist during the American Civil War, was second only to President Lincoln and General Grant in the Union Army. He was the most fierce, ruthless and ruthless military general in the history of the United States.
During the Civil War, he served as commander of the Western Theater of the United States and achieved success in the war in the spring of 1864. After the war, he served as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Army and was awarded the rank of general.
He proposed the "March to the Ocean" in 1864. During the march, he led an army of tens of thousands to sweep through the southern United States. No matter whether it was a city or a village, not a single blade of grass was left behind and everything was burned to ashes. !
The "March to the Ocean" completely destroyed various military facilities of the Southern Army, dealt a heavy blow to the economic power of the South, completely paralyzed the Southern economy, and laid the strongest foundation for the final victory of the Northern Army.
This all-out war model, which destroys the opponent's war potential, industry, agriculture and economic systems, and attacks military and civilian facilities indiscriminately, appeared for the first time in human history starting with Sherman.
Thus, historians generally believe that he was an early advocate of "total war" and the founder of total warfare in the industrial age.
Ye Tian was not surprised to find this notebook in Chattanooga.
This was Sherman's base camp during the Civil War, where he fought and garrisoned for a long time, and was also the initial starting point of his "March to the Sea."
On the top of Luke Otter Mountain, not far from this courtyard market, is the Chattanooga Battle Memorial Hall, which contains a large number of historical materials and related cultural relics introducing Sherman.
For Chattanooga people, although William Sherman was not born in this city, he is the pride and hero of this city!
There may be many reasons why this notebook appears here. Perhaps Sherman's orderlies brought the notebook back to Chattanooga, or Sherman himself left the notebook here.
Of course, it may also be the collection of that collector!
As for why it is hidden in the table leg, it is unknown.
The desk was manufactured in 1925, which may have something to do with the 1929 economic crisis.
At that time, many people left their hometowns to seek life. Perhaps in order to preserve this note, they modified the furniture and hid it!
But no matter what the reason, this marching note is now in front of him, within reach. How could Ye Tian miss it? How could you bear to miss it?
This is a treasure that belongs to my buddies. Whoever takes it from me will give it to me!
Compared with the previous top oil paintings, sculptures, etc., this is a truly priceless treasure that cannot be measured in dollars. It is a national treasure of the United States, enough to make countless people crazy for it!
Ye Tian forcibly suppressed his excitement, and his heartbeat gradually calmed down! ,
Now is not the time to get excited. Once you get these two pieces of furniture and this priceless marching notebook, you can cheer and celebrate.
With this marching notebook, even if he returns to New York immediately and ends his treasure hunt in Corridor 127, Ye Tian will be very happy. There is no better harvest than this!
He did not immediately withdraw his perspective, inquire with the stall owner, and take down the two pieces of furniture. Instead, he read the contents of the notes with great interest.
Although the notebook is rolled up and the text is backwards in many places, it is still barely readable under perspective, but it makes me a little dizzy!
Seeing the content on the first page of the note, Ye Tian immediately felt a murderous aura coming towards him.
There is this line at the top of the first page:
“To carry out devastating, reckless destruction of the South at all costs will not only destroy the enemy’s army, but also destroy the enemy’s economic foundation and the will of the enemy’s residents to fight. —Ulysses Grant”
This is a very famous combat order in American history, and subsequent famous actions such as "March to the Ocean" and "Burning Atlanta" all came from it.
The overall strategy formulated by Grant and Sherman had a great impact on the history of the US military!
The shadow of this strategy can be seen in future "ideas such as unconditional surrender, nuclear deterrence, and large-scale retaliation."
Under this famous military order is a text by Sherman.
"After consultation with General Grant and careful deduction by many staff members, we jointly formulated the next phase of the battle plan, which is as follows:
The two theaters in the east and west were divided into three lines to launch a coordinated attack to the south at the same time. The east line was the main direction of attack, with the main goal of annihilating Robert Lee's Army.
Relying on a series of uninterrupted battles to consume the Confederate army, and then capture Richmond. Butler's troops marched from east to west, taking Richmond directly.
My army swept from west to southeast, went deep behind enemy lines to occupy Georgia, and moved forward to the Atlantic coast to implement an intermediate breakthrough in the eastern region of the south."
Seeing this text, Ye Tian couldn't help but shudder.
Anyone who knows the history of the American Civil War will understand what this passage represents!
It was a **** scene with corpses scattered everywhere! It is a hellish nightmare that every American southerner is unwilling to go and dare not face!
When Sherman led 100,000 troops into Georgia, the American South turned into a **** on earth!
The first was the Battle of Atlanta, which lasted four months from May to September. Sherman successfully captured the richest and most prosperous city in the South!
After occupying Atlanta, Sherman issued a proclamation to local residents, requiring all militiamen to lay down their arms and all citizens to leave the city.
Subsequently, he ordered the Union Army to burn the entire city when they left Atlanta in November!
Thousands of old men and women refused to leave in order to prevent the Union Army from burning down Atlanta. They believed that as long as they were still in the city, the Union Army would not dare to set fire to them out of concern for their lives.
But they are too naive!
When the Union Army was preparing to set fire, the old men and women knelt on the ground, hugged the thighs of the Union soldiers, cried loudly, and begged the soldiers at the top of their lungs to forgive their cities and homes for the sake of God. .
The Northern Army soldiers kicked them away without hesitation and began setting fires in various streets of the city.
Soon, the fire spread throughout the city, and the Northern Army soldiers quickly withdrew from the city, ignoring the elderly and women in the city.
In front of the overwhelming fire, thousands of poor old men and women could only struggle and scream desperately, trampling on each other and running for their lives!
In the end, no one escaped the sea of fire, and they were all burned to ashes!
The Northern Army guarding outside the city sternly warned Atlanta residents who evacuated outside the city that anyone who tried to put out the fire would be killed. The fire burned for half a month.
At night, the roaring fire jumped more than a hundred meters high, burning the entire sky as if it were daytime. The sky reddened by the fire could be seen 20 miles away from Atlanta.
During the day, huge plumes of smoke billowing up across the city obscured the sky, making the 200 square miles around Atlanta seem like night.
Outside the city, countless terrified and desperate Atlanta residents could only watch as their city, homes and relatives were mercilessly devoured by fire. Their hearts were torn, they stamped their feet and beat their chests, and their cries shook the earth.
The priests in Atlanta could only stand silently in front of the burning city, facing the red sky in despair, crossing themselves and praying constantly to see off their city and the innocent souls who were buried in the sea of fire.
Atlada, once the most prosperous and beautiful city in the south, was gone after this catastrophe. It was all reduced to ruins, with only one street surviving.
This street has now become a historical symbol of Atlanta. It is called an underground street. The entire street is indeed underground and can only be reached by taking an elevator down.
In other words, the entire Atlanta today was built on the original ruins! The old urban area was completely destroyed and buried underground.
After setting fire to Atlanta, Sherman began his famous "March to the Sea."
He selected 62,000 elite soldiers, most of them black, carrying only 20 days of dry food. They set out from Atlanta, formed multiple columns, marched hand in hand, and rushed to the famous Georgia port of Savannah, copying the Confederate Army's Way back!
In more than a month, Sherman's army marched more than 460 kilometers, destroying plantations, towns, villages, factories, and businesses in the South along the way, crushing almost everything in the South!
This was a destructive march that encountered little resistance. Sherman gave up all baggage transportation and advanced lightly, relying on burning, killing, looting and replenishing supplies along the way.
While marching, he uttered a famous quote that frightened all southerners.
"We must remove and destroy all obstacles, kill everyone as we deem it necessary, seize every inch of land, confiscate every property, in a word, mercilessly destroy everything we see. !
I just want to make the whole of Georgia cry and howl, I just want to make the whole of Georgia become a hell, I just want to make all Georgians, regardless of men, women, old and young, poor and rich, feel unforgettable pain, my The Legion will destroy Georgia and then quickly! "
Starting from Atlanta, Sherman's Army burned, killed and looted all the way.
Wherever Sherman's Army passed, it was like being run over by a steamroller, and everything on the ground was completely destroyed.
As his army advanced rapidly, it completely destroyed all material facilities wherever it went, robbed civilians of their food and property, and killed civilians who resisted.
Burn farmland, blow up villages, seal wells with lime, destroy railroads, rob and evict residents one after another, and burn down one town after another.
Sherman's troops haven't arrived yet, and the flames spreading into the sky can be seen more than ten miles away!
When Sherman's army left, there was only charred soil and lonely smoking tree trunks on the ground, and no other people or living things!
At this time, in a speech, he said the famous saying that shocked all Americans.
"If people think I am cruel and cruel, I will tell them that war is war and its purpose is not to win people's favor!
War is hell! If you want to stop all this and want peace, you and your loved ones should lay down your arms and stop this war! "
In December 1864, with the cooperation of the Northern Navy, Sherman captured Savannah, Georgia. The eastern part of the Southern Confederate territory was split in half by Sherman's army.
At this point, Sherman successfully completed the battle plan of advancing to the ocean, from Chattanooga to Georgia, and then to the Atlantic coast, laying the foundation for his final victory over the South.