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In 1864, General Sherman's overarching plan in the South was to wage "total war" in one final, decisive effort in order to bring the South to its knees. By cutting a long, firm line of destruction from Atlanta to the Atlantic, which destroyed industry, cut communications, terrorized the populace, and ruined crops, Sherman's ravaging of the Deep South most certainly hastened the end of the war as a whole.
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 8y agoUnion General William T. Sherman's campaign into the deep South had as its primary goal the capture of the South's large city of Atlanta, Georgia. The city was a railway hub to many key parts of the South. It needs to bear in mind that military historians do not use the term of total war when describing the Lincoln-Grant -Sherman revised strategy to win the war. Rather, historians identify the strategy as a war of exhaustion. Meaning that any and all possible types of supply to keep the Confederate war effort going was to be confiscated or destroyed.In military terms a total war would entail what was done in World War Two. There cities such as Dresden were bombed and had no logistical or military value at all. The huge bombardment from the air created a firestorm that killed 100,000 Dresden citizens. It was designed to create terror. Likewise the atomic bombs dropped in Japan constitute total war.
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