The goal of the Union army's 300 mile march to the sea in 1864 was to destroy the South's capacity to wage war, both physically and psychologically. On November 15 the march commenced as General William Tecumsah Sherman's Union troops
left Atlanta in flames. In his memoirs Sherman would recall:
"Behind us lay Atlanta, smouldering and in ruins, the black smoke rising high in the air. Some band struck up the anthem of "John Brown's soul goes marching on." The men caught up the strain, and never before or since have I heard the chorus of "Glory Glory Hallelujah" done with more spirit."
How many wars before and since the American Civil War have convinced their participants that destroying people's homes and killing their neighbors is something to celebrate because God supports them and even demands it of them? It is a sobering thought.

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