Chapter on "Sherman vs. Hardee, 1864"

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Hardee was not finished with Sherman, however. As Sherman turned northward to tear up the Carolinas, Hardee followed and attempted to engage one wing of Sherman's Army. It was too little, too late. The strategy failed and Hardee did what he had put off doing in December in Savannah -- he surrendered.

In conclusion, Lieutenant-General William Hardee was unable to defend Savannah with any realistic chances of success against Sherman's onslaught. Hardee's trench tactic was essentially a stall tactic, which diverted the invaders to Fort McAllister, where Confederate forces were promptly put down. With Sherman linking up with the U.S. Navy, Hardee faced certain annihilation if he chose to stay and fight. Not a man to send his soldiers to early graves if at all unnecessary, he followed Davis's command to retreat. Thus the Savannah Campaign ended with the surrender of the city following the Confederate withdrawal. Hardee would surrender to Sherman just four months later in the Carolina Campaign. The significance of Hardee's escape from Savannah had by then already been felt all throughout the South -- it was the toll of the death bell for the Confederate States: not even its brightest tactician could save them with so few men.

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