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Major General William Tecumseh Sherman set out from Vicksburg on February 3, 1864, with an army of some 25,000 infantry and a battalion of cavalry. Though not a particularly effective campaign in terms of enemy soldiers captured or killed, it offers a rich opportunity to observe how this large-scale raid presaged Sherman's Atlanta and Carolina campaigns.

As a part of the plan to hold the lower Mississippi Valley, Major General William Tecumseh Sherman set out from Vicksburg on February 3, 1864. Though not a particularly effective campaign in terms of enemy soldiers captured or killed, it offers an opportunity to observe how this large-scale raid presaged Sherman's Atlanta and Carolina campaigns.