Atlanta and the March to the Sea Lsn 23. Grant’s Plan for 1864 Grant determined to “press” the Confederates on all sides in May 1864: –Meade overland.
Civil War – Year by Year. Steps to Secession Nov. 1860 – Nov. 1860 – –6 th - Lincoln elected president. A number of southern states had threatened secession.
Sherman in Georgia. Mobile Bay Port for blockade runners in the Gulf Entrance to the bay heavily fortified with artillery and mines (torpedos) David Farragut.