The civil war strategy that involved targeting an enemy's resources was called

A. total war

B. Appomattox

C. Southern surrender

D. March to the Sea

D. March to the Sea

Explanation:

William T. Sherman and his forces made capturing the city of Atlanta in 1864. Sherman and his forces burned the city and all its resources and continue his march to the sea destroying railroads, bridges, and factories. This civil war strategy of targeting an enemy's resources was called March to the Sea.

The correct answer is D. The Civil War strategy that involved targeting all enemy's resources was called March to the Sea.

Explanation:

Sherman's March to the Sea was the military campaign led by General William Tecumseh Sherman with his Union Army troops in the Civil War. This campaign began after the triumphs of Gettysburg and Vicksburg in mid-1863. Union troops had the opportunity to launch a major offensive from the state of Tennessee to Georgia, in the very center of the territory of the Confederate States. After Sherman's troops took Atlanta on September 2, 1864, they set out to advance through the Confederate territory to reach the Atlantic Ocean, defeating any Confederate troops who might find and destroying industries, railroads, mills, canals, warehouses, farms, workshops, and practically every element that served to sustain the economy of the secessionist states.

This strategy caused serious damage to the industry and infrastructure of the Confederation, causing severe devastation as the northern troops moved into unknown terrain, without supply lines, and with Sherman's order to subsist on the basis of harvests and cattle that they could steal or loot from the farms they found in their way, destroying livestock and surplus crops.