Rather than face a military force, Sherman (Spit!) finally chose to attack cilvilian targets, old men, women and children. What a coward.
I read recently that Hood's army camped near Cedartown, Georgia -- my mother's home town -- before He swooped off to do the same to Ohio.
But he met Thomas instead.
Nothing Hood did after he left the Atlanta, and little prior, would have met with Sun Tzu's approval.
Walt