“The Impact of Sherman’s March to the Sea and Sheridan’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign on the South’s Defeat: Evaluating the Controversy of Sherman’s Tactics”

1864 also saw two other major operations separate from the carnage of the Wilderness. Sherman’s March to the Sea and Sheridan’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign each played a major part in the South’s ultimate defeat, though Sherman receives far more credit for that defeat than does Sherman. Evaluate both campaigns and answer a question that has lingered for 150 years, was Sherman’s March a war crime?
James McPherson, This Mighty Scourge, Ch. 9 and 10
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Steven Woodworth, This Great Struggle, Ch. 11
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