1. Sherman and Total War
In the movie Glory, the Union army attacks a small town in Georgia on a “foraging mission.” When they find that there are no soldiers there – only civilians – what do they do?

2. Sherman and Total War William Tecumseh Sherman... Strategy: Total War
Goal: Make the Southerners “so sick of war that generation would pass away before they would again appeal to it.”
Marched from Atlanta to Savannah, and destroyed everything in between

3. Sherman and Total War Eyewitness Account:
“The fields were trampled down and the road was lined with carcasses of horses, hogs, and cattle that the invaders, unable either to consume or to carry away with them, had wantonly shot down, to starve out the people and prevent them from making their crops… The dwellings that were standing all showed signs of pillage … while here and there lone chimney stacks, 'Sherman's sentinels,' told of homes laid in ashes.”

4. Sherman and Total War
Read “On the Burning of Columbia, South Carolina.”
Answer the three discussion questions, especially #3.