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When Does A Scorched-Earth Policy Work? A Look at the Civil War's Final Year

Published: Nov. 14, 2019, 7:05 a.m.

Ulysses S. Grant arrives to take command of all Union armies in March 1864 to the surrender of Robert E. Lee at Appomattox a year later. Over 180,000 black soldiers in the Union army. And most of all, William Tecumseh Sherman launches his...