Editorial

“We have devoured the land and our animals eat up the wheat and cornfields close. All the people retire before us and desolation is behind. To realize what war is one should follow our tracks.”

Guy Bowers

— William Tecumseh Sherman, 1864 In the course of history, there have been few large-scale raids like that of Sherman’s march to the sea. Sherman took his army of over 60,000 men and marched them through Georgia, destroying railheads, setting fire to buildings, and destroying crops. His men lived off the land as they went. It was one of the first modern examples of total war. The march had a distinct military purpose. Grant’s Mississippi campaign had successfully cut the western Confederate states from the East. Sherman’s march cut the confederacy in half, again. With their rail infrastructure devastated, it made the movement of supplies and troops between the two halves (quarters?) very difficult and crippled the south’s economy. In this issue, we explore some of the gaming possibilities for…

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Wargames, Soldiers & Strategy (Digital) - 1 Issue, WSS 132

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