Sure, but that was 1863.
On their third assault on Chambersburg, in 1864, predating Sherman's burning of Atlanta by several months, Confederates burned the city when it refused to pay a ransom.
The burning of Lawrence Kansas came more than a year before Sherman marched into Georgia.
So Confederates were "Shermanesque" before Sherman.
Trying to ennoble a POS like W. T. Sherman is going to be pretty hard thing to do. But keep trying. We all need windmills to tilt at.
“Chimneyville” is the nickname for the city of Jackson, Mississippi. The name was coined after Union forces under General Sherman burned the city to the ground in July, 1863, leaving only the brick chimneys standing from what had once been elegant houses. The Chimneyville record label was a subsidiary of Malaco Records, first distributed by Cotillion, then Atco, then TK. Malaco was started in 1962 as a booking agency in Jackson, Mississippi, by Mitchell Malouf, Tommy Couch, and Wolf Stephenson. They also opened the Malaco recording studio in 1967, mostly recording local artists and radio jingles, but licensed an album and a number of singles by Mississippi Fred McDowell to Capitol.
General Sherman appointed Brig. Gen. Joseph A. Mower to the position of military governor of Jackson and ordered him to destroy all facilities that could benefit the war effort. With the discovery of a large supply of rum, it was impossible for Mower’s Brigade to keep order among the mass of soldiers and camp followers, and many acts of pillage took place. Grant left Jackson on the afternoon of May 15 and proceeded to Clinton, Mississippi. On the morning of May 16 he sent orders for Sherman to move out of Jackson as soon as the destruction was complete. Sherman marched almost immediately, clearing the city by 10 a.m.. By nightfall on May 16, Sherman’s corps reached Bolton, Mississippi, and the Confederacy had reoccupied what remained of Jackson. Jackson had been destroyed as a transportation center and the war industries were crushed