The Burning of the Shenandoah Valley: Part II

Описание: The American civil war was a war of transition. In the early part of the war up to Gettysburg, it was mainly Napoleonic warfare where defeating the other person's army in the field and capturing the combatant Capital was thought to be the way to victory.

In 1864 this changed. The commanders in the Union, Sheridan, and Sherman understood that this was a new type of war it was Total War.

To win in Total war you have to destroy your opponent's ability to wage war. The Union army’s strategic objective was to destroy the foodstuffs of the Shenandoah Valley, the breadbasket of the Confederacy. The army of Northern Virginia was being fed mainly from food from the Shenandoah valley.

Grant and Sheridan are waging Kesselschlacht on a grand scale. Grant’s encircling of the army of Northern Virginia at Petersburg and Sheridan’s pushing Early’s army and going after the supply lines in the Shenandoah valley

This is what led to The Burning of the Shenandoah Valley.


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