So then your problem is not with Sherman's tactics, it's that he used them against the confederacy?
How about the U.S. and U.K. air campaigns in World War II. Cities leveled, civilians killed, private property destroyed in both Germany and Japan. War crimes or legitimate war tactics?
Do those comparisons ~truly~ “connect” in your mind?
If so, you are *the* most aptly named FReeper in history.
I know that surely *you* must know this but it was not a true “civil war” in the respect that the south did *not* want to invade/conquer/occupy/overthrow the north or its government.
They wanted, as was their constitutional right, to simply walk away from the [formerly] voluntary union and be left alone.
If you are not aware of that, I’m afraid there’s nothing more for me to say to you.
You are beyond hope.