I saw Sherman's march on the History Ch a few nights ago. For two hours the only thought that kept floating through my mind was. Will someone please shoot this Son of a B....... :o)
The ironic part of your statement is that "Uncle Billy" saved tens of thousands of Southerners from certain death. His march through Georgia and the Carolina's was a brilliant military action which cost very few lives on either side yet shortened the war by at least one full year.
How many more would have died in service to an already defeated cause were it not for Sherman?