The Union adopted the strategy of total war primarily to weaken the Confederacy's capacity to fight by targeting not only its military forces but also its economic resources and infrastructure. This approach aimed to demoralize the Southern population and disrupt supply lines, thereby hastening the end of the Civil War. By destroying railroads, farms, and factories, the Union sought to erode the South's will to continue the conflict and ensure a swift victory. This strategy was exemplified in campaigns led by generals like William Tecumseh Sherman, particularly during his famous "March to the Sea."
Total war is a war in which a belligerent engages in the complete every human resource, even that of non-combatants, as nevertheless part of the war effort.
Until the end of the war, tactics on both sides remained the same as in Napoleonic times. The union strategy was a blockade strategy at sea and on the rivers, coupled with a total war strategy to destroy the means of producing war supplies on land.
The total war campaign during the American Civil War was primarily carried out by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman. His famous "March to the Sea" in 1864 exemplified this strategy, as it aimed to destroy not only Confederate military targets but also the economic infrastructure and civilian morale supporting the Confederacy. Sherman's approach was part of a broader Union strategy to break the will of the South and hasten the end of the war.
the strategy that the union used was called the anaconda plan the anaconda plan was that the union would surround the confederate on all sides
It was to blocade Confederate ports and intercept war materiel from Europe.
The new strategy was based on total war on the Confederacy.
General Sherman.
Total war is a war in which a belligerent engages in the complete every human resource, even that of non-combatants, as nevertheless part of the war effort.
Until the end of the war, tactics on both sides remained the same as in Napoleonic times. The union strategy was a blockade strategy at sea and on the rivers, coupled with a total war strategy to destroy the means of producing war supplies on land.
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After the US Civil War, some historians tagged the Union's strategy in the last two years of the war as "total war". In today's modern military view that term does not fit the Union strategy and in fact was never used in the war. Currently, military historians call the last two years of that war a war of "exhaustion". In modern terms this means that face to face the Union could not defeat the South.But, by exhausting the amount of supplies available, the Southern armies could not take on the field of battle.
Containment Strategy
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containment strategy
No, Scott devised the Anaconda Plan: a blockade and starve strategy.
the strategy that the union used was called the anaconda plan the anaconda plan was that the union would surround the confederate on all sides
the union won the civil war !