HST 501 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Status Quo Ante Bellum, Total War, Philip Sheridan
29 Jan 2020
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The conict was therefore a limited war . with the limited goal of restoring the status quo ante bellum, not an unlimited war to destroy an enemy nation and reshape its society. " Gradually, or as mcpherson puts it, "willy-nilly," the war became "a total war rather than a limited one. " Tecumseh sherman and philip sheridan saw more clearly than anyone else the nature of modern, total war, a war between peoples rather than simply between armies, a war in which the fighting left nothing untouched or unchanged. " President lincoln came to realize the nature of the military contest and "sanctioned this policy of "being terrible" on the enemy. " "when the civil war became a total war, the invading army intentionally destroyed the economic capacity of the south to wage war. " Lincoln: as the war approached its conclusion, lincoln on three occasions wrote his peace terms down on paper.
