On February 14, 1864, Union General William T. Sherman arrives in Meridian, Mississippi during a winter campaign that served as a precursor to his March to the Sea campaign that happened in Georgia. The Mississippi campaign was the first attempt of the Union at total warfare.<span> </span>
The answer is going to be <span>Hawaii</span>
The Civil War was by far the most catastrophic event to ever happen in the American South. There have been at least a few discussions on whether Abraham Lincoln and the Republicans should have prosecuted the Civil War, but surprisingly very little analysis on whether South Carolina's secession in 1860 was a strategically wise move in the context of the American debate on slavery and states' rights.
Secession was driven by the Southern planter class. For the purposes of this article, let's stipulate that the preservation of slavery and the plantation economy was the primary objective in seceding from the United States. If that was the point of secession, then the strategy was an obvious disaster
He was influential of being a military leader and the first president...