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.
To make that a collective assessment of what the confederates did is less than analytical....Richmond was set fire by the Rebs to destroy munitions production when they saw the end was near; Atlanta, the rails and munitions...Columbia was burned by the YANKEES partly due to Sherman’s animosity toward Hampton...nice try.
Also, none of the areas fired were civilian neighborhoods...
in Columbia, the Yanks fired it all......