Sherman's strategy depicted is best characterized as:
- Acheck_circle
Total war directed at Southern civilian infrastructure to break the Confederacy's economic and psychological capacity to fight
- B
Conventional pitched battle with the main Confederate army
- C
A defensive operation guarding Union supply lines
- D
A naval campaign supported by army units
Explanation
Sherman deliberately targeted railroads, crops, and property to destroy the South's capacity and will to continue the war, an early example of modern total-war strategy.