Grant was basically a simple man who was good at simplifying problems.
He knew that his job was to use his advantage in manpower to wear down the Confederate forces until their lines broke, meanwhile refusing to exchange prisoners, and allowing Sheridan to lay waste to the Shenandoah Valley, while Sherman did the same to Georgia and Carolina, bringing the Confederate armies closer to starvation.
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Total war means to kill EVERY enemy and destroy EVERYTHING that enemy has.
Sherman's March
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Grant emphasized a total war strategy, where as McClellan promoted limited war
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To change the course of the war. Grant and Sherman both believed that it was the strength of the people's will that was keeping the war going.
According to census.gov, the total area of Grant County, West Virginia, is 480.19 square miles.
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.
It wasn't Grant who practiced total war, but Sherman. He decided that if he wiped out all crops, rail road routes, burned cities that the south would give in. After the war Sherman was asked to practice total war on the plains tribes by killing the buffalo herds.
The book "Gone" by Michael Grant has around 560 pages in the paperback edition.
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