William Tecumseh Sherman leaves Atlanta on November 15, 1864, with 62,000 Union troops and turns east toward the Georgia coast, and this film tracks the campaign that followed. Rather than chasing a Confederate army, Sherman's men cut a corridor of destruction roughly sixty miles wide, tearing up rail lines, burning crops and barns, and confiscating livestock and supplies as they go, a strategy aimed at breaking the South's capacity to keep fighting rather than defeating it in battle. The march ends in December with the fall of Savannah, which Sherman offers to Lincoln as a Christmas present, and the film treats the campaign as a hinge point where war stopped being fought only against armies and started being waged against a civilian economy. It frames Sherman's tactics as the template later commanders would study for total war, tracing a direct line from the burned fields of Georgia to twentieth-century strategies of economic warfare. The focus stays on the mechanics of the march itself: routes, targets, and the scale of the destruction left behind.