Or, as you so imply, the southerners were dirty SOB's that should have been exterminated? You and Sherman would have been in total agreement. His and other Northerner's ideas were what the war was really about, "GREED". Invade the south, subjugate, kill, deport the people and colonize it with Yankees.
Excerpts from Sherman's letter to his brother of Aug. 13, 1862:
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ga/topic/military/CivilWar/shermanscheme.htm
"Of course I approve the confiscation act, and would be willing to revolutionize the government so as to amend that article of the Constitution which forbids the forfeiture of land to the heirs. My full belief is, we must colonize the country de novo, beginning with Kentucky and Tennessee, and should remove 4,000,000 of our people at once south of the Ohio River, taking the farms and plantations of the Rebels. I deplore the war as much as ever, but if the thing has to be done, let the means be adequate."
"We must colonize and settle as we go South, for in Missouri there is as much strife as ever."
"Enemies must be killed or transported to some other country."
On the contrary, you are the only one saying that it is perfectly acceptable to kill innocent civilians, so long as those civilians were Unionists.