Both Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman employed a strategy of total war during the Civil War. Grant focused on relentless, coordinated assaults to wear down Confederate forces, exemplified in battles like Vicksburg and the Overland Campaign. Sherman, on the other hand, is best known for his "March to the Sea," where he led a campaign of destruction through Georgia, targeting not only military targets but also civilian infrastructure to undermine the Confederacy’s will to fight. This approach aimed to shorten the war by inflicting significant psychological and material damage on the South.
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