The king doesn’t have those tanks, F-15’s, Helos and Puff the Magic Dragon. We do.
And Sherman did a great job in his March to the Sea. The column of newly freed ex-slaves walking behind his army stretched for miles.
You left out the part where he destroyed his bridges, leaving them to deal with the supervision of the pursuing Confederate cavalry. The slaves of Georgia fared no better than her citizens in the march to the sea.