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According to Beverly & Thomas Lowry (authors of numerous books and creators of the courts martial database), of the 100,000 Union courts-martial, some 350 men were officially found guilty of rape (as an aside, in their review of over 5,000 Confederate courts-martial, 0 were for rape). Of the Union courts martial, 24,188 were guily of desertion. Additionally, they note that not all rapes are reported as such, many are cited as 'conduct prejudicial'. Furthermore, that is only those officially charged, just as today, far more incidents occur than are reported. And even then, what Southern woman could expect justice from the Yankees that just destroyed their farm and stole all their property?

How does 350 equal "thousands"? Again, you're delusional in thinking that 350 means thousands. And it was kinda hard for Southerners to be charged by the U.S. military with rape since they were not Union soldiers and since they spent such little time in the North and if they committed rapes in the South, the Confederacy didn't have the resources to charge them, and if they did, many records were lost. Plus there are accounts that the military wouldn't charge them even if they did rape according to the Governer of Virginia because there were disputes over what was a military crime and what was a civilian crime. Even so, here are some pages of Confederate rapes against their own women. Plus, the bias is clear when the authors say that despite 350 cases, that they know there were more. Uh huh, sounds like today's feminazis. Plus, despite your claims against Sherman, these 350 were spread over the whole war and all armies. So that would add up to very few for Sherman's men. Your claims thousands of rapes by Sherman's men just don't add up, not surprisingly, given the record of neoconfederates when it comes to facts.

Plus, the bias is clear when the authors say that despite 350 cases, that they know there were more.

Additionally, they note that not all rapes are reported as such, many are cited as 'conduct prejudicial'.

It's not as if he's a novice on the subject, Lowry authored Tarnished Eagles: The Court-Martial of Fifty Union Colonels and Lieutenant Colonels
The Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell: Sex in the Civil War
Tarnished Scalpels: The Court-Martials of Fifty Union Surgeons
Swamp Doctor: The Diary of a Union Surgeon in the Virginia and North Carolina Marshes
The Attack on Taranto: Blueprint for Pearl Harbor
Curmudgeons, Drunkards, and Outright Fools: Courts-Martial of Civil War Union Colonels
Don't Shoot That Boy! Abraham Lincoln and Military Justice

And refering to the rapes you report by Confederates - that was the "bait". Despite NOT being documented in the Confederate Records which they researched, you located some not documented. Thank you for proving my point for me.