0
How did Sherman use the strategy of total war to weaken the confederacy?
Wiki User
∙ 13y ago
He destroyed everything his army marched through. The South lost transportation lines, homes, civilians, and a lot of destroyed property. It left the Confederacy in ruins
Wiki User
∙ 13y ago
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
Who was General Grants strategy for crushing the Confederacy after the battle of Getty burg?
Total War
William Tecumseh sherman's fighting technique was known as what?
William T. Sherman's method/strategy was known as Total War or Hard War.
How were the efforts of General Grant and Sherman at the end of the war similar and different?
Sherman practiced a strategy called total war. They both surrounded their opponents.
Grant and Sherman's strategy of total war targeted not only the Confederate army but also?
It also targeted the civilian population of the South.
Why did sherman use total war when he marched through Georgia?
He believed it would cripple the Confederacy more effectively and force the South to surrender more quickly.
What Union General applied a strategy of total war on his march from Atlanta to the sea?
Punitive raids on the civilian mainstay of the Confederacy.
What union general waged a total war against the confederacy?
william tecumseh sherman
What man was most associated with the total war strategy of the Civil War?
General Sherman.
Who was General Grants strategy for crushing the Confederacy after the battle of Getty burg?
Total War
How were the efforts of general and Sherman at the end of the war similar and different?
Sherman practiced a strategy called total war. They both surrounded their opponents.
William Tecumseh sherman's fighting technique was known as what?
William T. Sherman's method/strategy was known as Total War or Hard War.
General Sherman's war strategy?
Total War: Destroying everything in his path.
How were the efforts of General Grant and Sherman at the end of the war similar and different?
Sherman practiced a strategy called total war. They both surrounded their opponents.
After the unsuccessful peninsula campaign what did Lincoln and the Union turned to?
The new strategy was based on total war on the Confederacy.
What is meant by the statement that William Tecumseh Sherman waged a total war?
He attacked the civilian infrastructure of the Confederacy, to starve the South, including their armies.
What was the strategic goal of the Union General William T Sherman's march through South Carolina?
To create the idea of "total war" against the Confederacy. Total war meaning, to make the South as uncomfortable as possible with the war so they would withdrawal. IMPROVEMENT The strategic goal of Sherman's "March to the Sea" was not to exert the total war against the Confederacy; this was only the means to prevent the Confederates from effectively hindering his advance towards the weakly defended rear of the so called "Atlantic Fortress" of the Confederacy.
Grant and Sherman's strategy of total war targeted not only the Confederate army but also?
It also targeted the civilian population of the South.
