Civil War Strategy of Hard War in the North As the
Civil War dragged on the North shifted to a strategy of “hard war.” Describe hard war and whether it was necessary for the North to employ it during the Civil War. Did the North win by waging total war in the Civil War? Total war is a “war that is unrestricted in terms of the weapons used, the territory or combatants involved, or the objectives pursued, especially one in which the laws of war are disregarded.”the contention of some historians that the Civil War was the first modern “total war,” setting the precedent for the murderous wars of the twentieth century, appears to be a new twist on the Myth of the Lost Cause.
