Good profile!
My father is named after General Wade Hampton, richest man in the US before the war due to plantations and slave ownership, as was my grandfather. Gen Hampton saw the war all the way through, succeeding Stuart after he was killed, as head of the CSA cavalry...
Sherman went to his death denying he set fire to Columbia, SC because of Hampton...he lied all the way to Hell.
The confederates burned their cities on their withdrawal. They did it to Atlanta, they did it to Richmond, they did it to Colombia. Generally they slashed the fire hoses too. Still Union soldiers put the fires out eventually.