It was deliberate wrecking of the farms and the railroads, to ruin the Southern economy and starve the Confederate armies in the field.
It was carried out in the Shenandoah Valley by Sheridan, and in Georgia and South Carolina by Sherman.
Total war was General Sherman's strategy. He was to use total war to destroy the resources of the south. I am also a civil war expert so you can trust my answer.
total war or March to the Sea
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Well it helped deal with the south and the slavery problem.
Total War is the destruction of the country's ability to carry on a war. It includes killing civilians and destroying the enemies cities and infrastructure. The north used it against the south during the American Civil War. Every country fighting in World War II resorted to total war to some degree.
A total war is when soldiers who are fighting in a war affect and rule over the civilians the shop keepers and the livestock in the civil war it was General Sherman who used the total war against the Confederacy. and he used it In Georgia during the "March to the Sea"
they sarted a war with them
Before the civil war it didn't affect the south, but after the war began the north had all the industrial growth and could produce things needed for fighting a war.
William Tecumseh Sherman was the general who theorized and applied the Total War on the South.
By destorying homes and factories in the south
it made the south lose the war
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Total war was General Sherman's strategy. He was to use total war to destroy the resources of the south. I am also a civil war expert so you can trust my answer.
Sherman
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William T. Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman.