General Sherman was assigned this task by General Grant. This Total War started against mostly helpless farmers in the Shenandoah Valley. There were very few Confederate Troops there but it was a Highway for the Confederate Armies to move. In the late summer of 1864, Sherman and his Army burned about 2000 Civilian homes, 7000 livestock and killed everything in sight. This crippled the Confederates abilities to receive and produce supplies. From the Shenandoah Valley Sherman moved South destroying anything in his path all the way to Atlanta and Savannah Georgia. When his army finally turned back north, it destroyed everything again up until reached N.C. These tactics broke the hearts and minds of the Confederate Civilians and Soldiers.
The Union was North(:
North: Union South: Confederacy
The Union is all of the Northern states. The Confederacy is the South.
The Union was the North - all the states that had not seceded.
South Carolina seceded from the Union before the Civil War.
William Tecumseh Sherman was the general who theorized and applied the Total War on the South.
Sherman through the south. He was Union.
General Sherman
"Total War" is an act (to my understanding) that kills off the enemies arsenal and resources to stop the enemies from continuing to fight (rebel). Without the resources, the South would have no way to rebel against the Union anymore besides they were already low on resources. General Ulyssis S. Grant believed in total war and he ordered General William Tecumseh Sherman, also a believer in total war, to wage total war against the South. He set out in March 1864 from Tennessee to Georgia. Sherman reached Atlanta, South's main manufacturing and railroad center, on September and he burned the city.
William T Sherman
No, the south did not really leave the union after the war. the south needed the support and assistance of the union so they could not have left.
the confederates were the south, who lacked manpower but made up for it in determination and good miliatary leaders.
The Union was North(:
William Tecumseh Sherman
Yes- the South was the Confederacy - the North, the Union
North: Union South: Confederacy
General William Tecumseh Sherman led his infamous "March to the Sea" during the American Civil War, starting in November 1864. His campaign involved a scorched earth strategy, where Union troops marched from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia, destroying military targets, infrastructure, and civilian property along the way. The intent was to undermine the Confederate war effort and morale by demonstrating the Union's ability to wage total war and bring the conflict directly to Southern civilians. Sherman's tactics significantly impacted the South's economy and contributed to the eventual Union victory.