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To manoeuvre Lee into a corner, and basically wait for him to run out of manpower.

Meanwhile he told Sheridan to devastate the fertile Shenandoah Valley - a curtain-raiser for Sherman's March to the Sea in Georgia, or Total War, as it was later called.

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