Reply #6: When you are deep in enemy territory with no one else coming to help if you get in trouble

[Larkspur]

a general better be careful with the lives of his soldiers. They are all that stand between him and being captured by a revenge minded enemy.

Laying siege isn't a picnic either. Sherman bombarded the city for weeks before the Confederate troops defending it had to leave due to Sherman's men finally cutting off all Confederate supply routes to the city. Sherman's troops were better equipped and outnumbered the Confederate forces defending Atlanta, so the city was doomed, but due to the ingenuity and courage of some Confederate commanders, it took a few months for Sherman's men to finally cut off all the cities supply lines and seal the city's fate.