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Salting the earth and burning Northern cities would have been directly contrary to the war aims of the South.

Well, there was that plan to burn down New York in 1864.

FWIW, "Copper" a not-very-good fictional TV series based on that event, is coming back for a second season next week.

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Well, there was that plan to burn down New York in 1864.

FWIW, "Copper" a not-very-good fictional TV series based on that event, is coming back for a second season next week.

Had heard of the plan, but not of the TV series. What station/network is it on? Are the back eps avail on the net somewhere? I'd like to watch it, even if sub-par.

Every war sees all sorts of planning done, most being discarded for a variety of reasons (including the "Are you nukkin' futz?!?" variety.

What matters is whether they're implemented, not just drawn up and presented. Of secondary importance is the stage to which they make it before being abandoned.

Case in point, following the Spanish American War the German General Staff (upon direction of the Kaiser) drew up plans to invade New York City and Boston and hold them for the "ransom" of the US's newly acquired colonies in the Caribbean and Pacific. (aside: Robert Conroy did a pretty decent alternate history novel, "1901", based on the plans actually being implemented).