ACW, North wins, no Sherman's March Through Georgia

In my "If Baseball Intergrated Early" history/society analogue ("Brotherhood and Baseball," perhaps? "Charity For All" also sounds good.), the Civil War ends with Georgia bing rather lightly scarred - like OTL Alabama, perhaps. (I was going to type how, but then when it comes out you might be less likely to buy it :D) Sherman burns through Mississippi, and only at the very end is the Savannah crossed, while after Chattanooga and Chickamauga are secured, something else is more pressing, though the Union does go a bit further into Georgia from there, too.

The war isn't covered in huge detail, but as one of the CSA soldiers once peacetime starts being covered is from Georgia, I wondered if anyone had ideas on how Georgia society might be impacted if there was no Sherman's March. (It might be hard for Mississippi to be more upset than they were OTL.)
 
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Only way I could see it is if:
A) Sherman is sent after Texas (ASB)
or
B) Sherman is sent after the Deep South states of Mississippi, Alabama, Southwestern Georgia, and Northern Florida.
or
C) Sherman's forces are stripped to reinforce Grant's army, causing Lee to lose at Petersburg a lot sooner.
 
Why wouldn't Sherman march through the South Eastern States? I mean there has to be a very important reason why exactly Sherman and his army does not march through Georgia but more importantly the Carolinas. Compared to the Carolina's Georgia actually got off rather light.
 
Why wouldn't Sherman march through the South Eastern States? I mean there has to be a very important reason why exactly Sherman and his army does not march through Georgia but more importantly the Carolinas. Compared to the Carolina's Georgia actually got off rather light.

that is a good question - I read that Georgia's governor threatened to secede from the CSA, so it's possible that he could be convinced to rejoin the Union to avoid the biggest invasion. However, there's also the march from Vicksburg through Jacksonand Meridian straight east, as Usertron says.

Of course, I could just ignore it - it's possible there could still be a March through Georgia to some extent, since the war drags on acouple months longer in Texas, too. So, I could just imply it did in Georgia as well. That works out pretty well, too.
 
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