Are you serious? That's just knit picking for the sake of knit picking, or simply the lack of a decent defensive argument. It's just pitiful.
Most Southerners probably just wanted the war over with a return to the old Union of North and South.
You really think that 'most Southerners' wanted to return to the union? This is how historical revisionism gets started.
A significant element of other Southerners, both black and white, welcomed the Yankees as liberators form slaver and/or local oppressions.
A significant element, colonel? Please.
Read up about the reception of Knoxville, Tennessee to Burnside and his liberating troops.
Why don't you tell us about Uncle Billy The Great Liberator and how welcomed he was while you're being totally delusional.
That's a great strategy, though. Here's an idea: The US will invade Mexico, kick the crap out of their army, destroy their infrastructure, burn down their cities, turn our troops loose to rape and pillage all over the country and then we'll march a couple of brigades through Mexico City with the band playing and call ourselves "liberators" and point at all the smiling peons and say "See! They're happy to see us!". And you sound like just the man to lead the parade.
You must have missed my oft posted account of the heroes' welcome Sherman's troops received when they arrived in Red Clay, Georgia.
I don't know about you, but part of my family was in Sherman's path and the death toil to those relations could be attributed to Gatewood's Confederate Rangers 1, Sherman's Yankees 0. Life became a lot safer for my people when Sherman was around and Confederate sanctioned semi-official criminals like Gatewood were suppressed. In a way, Sherman's bummers might have been a just retribution on South Carolina for aiding and loosing such cooks as Gatewood and Champ Ferguson on the Upper South.