What impact did the military strategy of total war have on the people of the south during the civil war

It did not end well because the General William Sherman's strategies essentially destroyed everything in his path of the march. They destroyed crops, animal, or anything in their way so it definitely had a negative impact on the people of the south.

 the answer to this question is the weavers,

The group  members were notably Pete Seeger and Lee Hays, Ronnie Gilbert, and Fred Hellerman and had formed the group in 1948.
The Weavers were an American folk music quartet based in the Greenwich Village area of New York City. They were forced to disband following congressional inquest into the group led by McCarthyism, which even convicted Seeger for contempt.