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Why did General Grant adopt the total war strategy?

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He knew the south had only one thing keeping it alive and that was the farmlands and the families they fought to protect as well as their families land. If he destroyed this he would destroy their will to keep fighting.
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A. To bring the war to a speedy end.

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