when was Sherman's Total War?

Answer 1

William Tecumseh Sherman was an American soldier, educator, and author. He served as a general in the United States Army during the American Civil War (1861–65), receiving both recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy, and criticism for the harshness of the "scorched earth" policies he implemented in conducting total war against the enemy.

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Answer 2

Sherman pretty much predicted total war from the start. He very nearly missed out because many Northern politicians didn't like his opinion of where the war would head. They thought he was crazy. But having lived in New Orleans, the knew something of the lunacy and resolve of Southerners (whom he liked I might add).

Sherman finally got to act out his version of total war following the taking of Atlanta. He destroyed as much of Atlanta as possible and then made the bold decision to march across Georgia to Savannah and then up the coast to Charleston, SC. Along the way, he unleashed total war on everyone and everything in his path. He spared Savannah much of his wrath, but visited it fully on Charleston, very heart of secession.

Sherman understood that war is just that war and the more terrible the better. He rightfully realized that if war were terrible enough, the people of the South might need look to it as an option in the future.

And he was right. Here we are still talking about him.

Answer 3

Sherman's march through Georgia during the civil war.

Sherman looted towns, burned crops, destroyed private property and in general made war on the civilian population of the South. He called it total war. But it violated the Geneva Convention. And had the south won would have been justified in hanging him.

"In 1863 an international convention met in Geneva, Switzerland, to codify rules of warfare that had been in existence for more than a century. Nations agreed that is was a war crime punishable by imprisonment or death, for armies to (1) attack defenseless cities and towns, (2) plunder and wantonly destroy civilian property, and (3) take from the civilian population more than what was necessary to feed and sustain an occupying army. The only just war, moreover, was a defensive war.

Lincoln launched an offensive war, burned defenseless towns, looted property and the like.

Had the Confederates somehow won, had their victory put them in position to bring their chief opponents before some sort of tribunal, they would have found themselves justified in stringing up President Lincoln and the entire Union high command for violation of the laws of war, specifically for waging war against noncombatants."

Answer 4

1864

Answer 5

Late in 1864, they marches through the South and completely destroyed their infrastructure, all the way up to I believe Charleston, SC, and then they worked their way North

Answer 6

shermans war started when the drunk bastard was pulled out of the gutter and given a command by the traitor lincoln,, then while hunting for more booze devasted georgia,