You're right. A swath of destruction was not cut across Georgia from Atlanta to Savannah. Columbia did not burn. What was I thinking?
Said his tactics, in the long run, saved lives, Southern as well as Northern. He did war by manuever instead of head on battle. Sherman waged the first blitzkrieg campaign in history. As for Columbia, those jacka*ses wanted secession, and if need be, war. They got it. Don't feel sorry for them at all. Georgia got less destruction than South Carolina. North Carolina got much less.
Since he was there to win the war, tough cookies.