Sherman’s forces during his Atlanta campaign and those that followed the fall of Atlanta. This policy was implemented particularly effectively by General William T. In doing so, this policy also sought to subject the population of the South to extreme hardship to break their will and to destroy the material needed to continue in armed rebellion against the government.
Instead of having explicitly military targets, Union forces sought to destroy the Confederacy’s ability to maintain the war effort. Grant, was a military policy that broke from the norms of the time.
The campaign of total war, waged by Union forces under Ulysses S. Elliott, Scott’s Great Snake (Anaconda Plan), 1861 Primary Source and the William Tecumseh Sherman and Total War Narrative to illustrate the tactics the Union used to win the war. Use this Primary Source alongside the J.B.
