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'Total War' - or abandoning the rules of combat, to target the 'civilian underbelly' of the enemy, burning farms, destroying cities etc. , as Sherman did in Georgia and Sheridan in the Shenandoah.

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The Union usually used the same tactics as the South, usually Napoleonic war tactics, fighting in formations and pushing back and forth or retreating and coming back with reinforcements to take a patch of ground. later in the war both sides used alot of trenches and cover learning to dig fortifications. Most fighting was one side attacking and the other defending.

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It was the stampede or the air raid

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