Total+War

"We cannot change the hearts of those people, but we can make war so terrible...[and] make them so sick of war that generations would pass away before they would again appeal to it." - General Sherman  1. Read diary entries to find pros/cons of total war from the viewpoint of a Northern soldier or a Southern civilian in Georgia or South Carolina during the final months of the Civil War

• From the Diary of Emma Florence LeConte: [] • From Cornelia Phillips Spencer, The Last Ninety Days of the War in North Carolina (1866): http://docsouth.unc.edu/true/spencer/spencer.html#p26 • From Charles Colcock Jones, The Siege of Savannah (1874): http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/jonescharles/jones.html • From Dolly Lunt Burge, A Woman’s Wartime Journal (1918): http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/burge/lunt.html • From the Journal of the Senate of the State of Georgia, 1865: http://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/gaextr65/gaextr65.html • Letter to James C. Calhoun (from W.T. Sherman), September 12, 1864: http://www.teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=1725

2. Complete the following diary activity: Based on the what you learned, write a one page diary entry (from the point of view you were previously assigned) about what you have seen going on around you. This diary entry should explain your thoughts about total war and the new tactics and strategies being used.

3. Record your diary entry as a podcast.


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