The strategy used in the south at the end of the Civil War was called what?

These fierce Union tours in the South were typified by General William Tecumseh Sherman’s “scorched earth” campaigns through Georgia and up into North Carolina. The Confederacy tried, unsuccessfully, to weaken the North’s southern border, waging fierce battles in Northern Virginia, while the Union staged intense marches in the South. Both the Union and Confederate armies planned their courses of action strategically. In the east, Northern Virginia (part of a confederate slave state) and southern Maryland (part of a Union slave state) were the site of a great deal of fighting throughout the war. Removed from the coast, much of the fighting took place in Tennessee, a slave state that seceded after the battle at Fort Sumter in 1861.

Fighting was concentrated in two main areas. Throughout those four years battles raged all over the southern United States, occuring as far west as Missouri, Arkansas, and even present-day Arizona and as far north as Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Beginning with the first shots fired at Fort Sumter, outside of Charleston, South Carolina, all the way to the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Courthouse, in Virginia, the United States Civil War lasted four tense and violent years.

The strategy used in the south at the end of the Civil War was called what?