Question

What was the reason behind Sherman's strategy of destroying infrastructure and resources in the South during the Civil War?

Answer 1

William Tecumseh Sherman was a General in the Union Army. He made his famous march, Sherman's March, through the South (at that time, the Confederacy) in order to destroy their infrastructure and sources they would have to make money to finance their side of the Civil War.. . Sherman's March was hailed in the North (the Union) as a brilliant move to break the backbone of the Confederacy and start to draw the Civil War to a close. Of course, it was equally demonized by the South (the Confederacy) for the scope of needless destruction, from which it took the people in the path of the march years to recover.

Answer 2

Isn't it interesting that the gentlemen from Virigina didn't do likewise during the invasion of Pennsyvania in 1863. The yankee civilians were paid in Confederate greenbacks, but they kept the lands intact....

Answer 3

cause the yankees knew that the south depended on our crops and on his march to the sea he burned everything to make the point that the union was gonna take our rights and they did now the federal government has all the authority it needs thanks to the war and the march to the sea you ask about, granted this is from a southerners point of view but it is our land he burned.

Answer 4

So the Union couldn't benefit from using or having them.

Answer 5

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