Explain how you feel about Gen Sherman's Special Field Order 120.

Explain how you feel about Gen Sherman’s Special Field Order 120. You are a soldier/officer in General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Army of Tennessee. It is late November 1864, and you are halfway through a one-month march from Atlanta, Georgia, to Savannah, Georgia, that is being called “Sherman’s March to the Sea.” Read the attached and respond to the following post in similar fashion: “To my brother Johnathn My men and I have been marching for a few weeks now. It is not much different than any other march. We march all day from sunup to sunset with no break for lunch, some 15 miles a day. The one major difference is the foragers or “bummers” as the men started calling them, they are the lucky ones getting to break away from the daily march to go find supplies to feed the men. I heard they sometimes burn down the houses and barns as a way of punishing the civilians and how they tie the railroads up in a “Sherman Neckties”. The men can’t wait until evening time when they sit around listening to the bummers tell the stories of their daily adventures. I’m not sure how I feel about Gen Sherman’s Special Field Order 120. But if that’s what it takes to end this war and all this death, then I’m all for it, the sooner the war is over the sooner I can go home to my family. Having taken Milledgeville, the Capital, a week ago the men’s sprits are high and ready to press forward to the sea. Write more when I can. Your brother George.” By the late summer of 1865 President Lincoln, Gen Grant and Gen Sherman all agreed that they need to end the war. Gen Sherman developed a plan while in Atlanta to perform a psychology war on the south. His intent was to put fear in the locals that if you continue to fight, we will continue to take your good and burn your homes. If you stop fighting, then he will stop the foragers. When he arrived in Savanna and the town sur “Total war” involves all aspects of combat, (fighting, psychology, and propaganda) aimed at both military and civilians. If you can break the will of the opposing force to fight you can end the conflict sooner and with fewer casualties. Gen Sherman did what, at the time, was the best way to end the war with the south in his opinion. His tactics was to remove the souths means to survive and to break their will to fight. I agree with the tactic, how it was carried out sometimes am not totally in agreement with.