And I believe that no army [that of the CSA] was ever composed of men more thoroughly imbued with moral principle. As a rule, they were men who recognized the obligation to be just and honest and merciful, and to respect the rights of others, even in time of war. Never flinching from conflict with armed foemen, their moral training and disposition forbade them to make war upon the weak and defenceless. To their everlasting honor stands the fact that in their march through the enemy's country they left behind them no fields wantonly laid waste, no families cruelly robbed of subsistence, no homes ruthlessly violated. "In no case," says an English writer, "had the Pennsylvanians to complain of personal injury, or even discourtesy, at the hands of those whose homes they had burned, whose families they had insulted, robbed and tormented. Even the tardy destruction of Chambersburg was an act of regular, limited and righteous reprisal." The Pennsylvania farmer, whose words were reported by a Northern correspondent, paid to the Southern troops no more than a merited tribute when he said of them: "I must say they acted like gentlemen, and, their cause aside, I would rather have 40,000 rebels quartered on my premises than 1,000 Union troops."
Southern Historical Society Papers, R. A Brock, ed., Richmond, VA: Southern Historical Society, Vol XXII, 1894, pp. 368-9
smart farmer.
free dixie,sw
That's probably because of the Confederate system that tended to divert the Dixie trash into abusing Southern people in the name of the Slave Empire. There was too much plunder and mayhem available on the home front to worry about the small chance of plundering Yankees. The good rebs were in the CSA and the bad ones stayed at home whipping and trading slaves and murdering and extorting money from the "Lincolnites".