In reality it was every yankee that sided with Lincoln that behaved badly.
Criminal fringes are inevitable with any army, including the Confederates.
Typical liberal response. Acceptance through equivalency.
Sherman did nothing a Confederate general wouldn’t have done to the opposing home front had doing so been in their interest to win.
I'm throwing the BS flag on that one. Lee, Jackson or any other Confederate general would not have behaved as poorly as Sherman, Sheridan and many other yankee officers.
The rebs’ fondest hope was that they might induce a European army to overrun their Northern countrymen. To me, it doesn’t get any lower than that.
So you're suggesting that securing allies is ignoble?
Yes, when it secures allies against your own countrymen with whom you expended so much blood and effort to rid our land of foreign domination. The Confederates were too feeble themselves to overrun Northern locales with a plundering army but they were perfectly happy and anxious to see a French or British army do the same.