It takes about 1 pound of salt per square foot to kill vegetation. So you are telling me that the union soldiers took 20 tons of salt to kill one acre. The force of 62,000 men carrying 20 pounds of salt each (62,000 x 20 = 1,240,000 pounds of salt) 1 acre = 43,560 square feet / 2000 = 21.78 tons.

This means they killed 28 acres. 60 miles wide x 300 miles long is 18,000 square miles or 11.5 million acres. So they killed 28 acres, and I'm being very generous here since even if they took the salt that was on hand in Georgia they may have killed another 5 maybe 10 acres.

Even if it takes 4 ounces per foot then they may have taken out 100 acres, out of 11.5 million.

The atrocities.