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What is it called when food and equipment are destroyed?
Punitive raids.
What is the definition of punitive?
Concerned with, or inflicting punishment
Who wanted to punish the confederate states for succeeding the union?
Sherman, with his punitive raids across Georgia and South Carolina.
Who was the northern general that devastated the south in the civil war?
William Sherman. His punitive raids are known to have shortened the war.
Who started burning cities in the American Civil War?
Sherman - in the course of his punitive raids across Georgia and South Carolina.
Why do some southerners consider sherman as the greatest villain of the war?
Because he made punitive raids on unarmed civilians and organised what they considered wanton vandalism.
What state that was destroyed by general Sherman?
He carried out punitive raids on civilians in Georgia and South Carolina, whose capital, Columbia, was burned down, allegedly on purpose.
How was the life of many Georgians after the Civil War ended?
Grim. Much of the state had been deliberately wrecked by Sherman in his series of punitive raids called the March to the Sea.
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.
Destroyed the southern economy but strengthened southern hatred of yankees?
Grant's policy of Total War, with Sheridan laying waste to the Shenandoah Valley and Sherman carrying out his punitive raids in Georgia.
What was the union armys highly destructive conquest of the south called?
The March to the Sea. That was Sherman crossing Georgia - he then continued his punitive raids into South Carolina. Meanwhile Sheridan was doing the same in the Shenandoah.
What was William Tecumseh sherman's most important battle?
The crossing of Georgia, making punitive raids on civilians, destroying the farms, helping to starve the Confederate armies, altogether devastating Southern morale.
