he wanted to achieve to win against the south by cutting off their food ports and making them starve so they would die off one by one.
Sherman's March
Sherman
William T Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman.
William T. Sherman
Sherman through the south. He was Union.
General Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman was the general who theorized and applied the Total War on the South.
Total War: Destroying everything in his path.
Yes, because nearly all the battles were in the South, and in the last stages, Sherman was waging 'total war' on civilians. However, after Grant ended prisoner-exchanges, the Union prisoners in Andersonville suffered extreme privations, worse than anything the Confederate prisoners experienced in Northern jails.
economic infrastructure
They stole the South's weapons and destroyed all of their resources.