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In 1864 and 1865, the Union General William Tecumseh Sherman led an army through Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina--destroying cities, fields, railways, and anything of possible use for war. This new type of war became known as _____.

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The new war type became know as the Scorched Earth policy
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