The Sherman who lived in Louisiana before the war? He fought a hard war, a destructive war, but didn’t want to exterminate his enemies.
And you’ve opened up a massive can of worms concerning our conduct in WWII, Vietnam, and other wars. Do you want to get into that?
“He fought a hard war, a destructive war, but didn’t want to exterminate his enemies.”
To be clear: are you saying there is no written record of his writing about the extermination of his (or his country’s) enemies?