Sherman was a traitor. He was from Louisiana. In fact, he founded LSU. This is why he left the plantations in Louisiana alone.
Traitor?! There’s more crying in baseball than traitors in The Civil War. Sherman simply chose to succeed from the Confederacy, as was his God-given right.
Sherman was born and raised in Ohio. Shortly before the war he was appointed president of a school that would much later become LSU. When states began seceding, military men had to choose weather to stay loyal to their oaths to the Union and the Constitution or to side with the rebellion. Sherman chose the Constitution.
As for burning plantations in Louisiana, I don’t think he ever set foot there during the war. In fact, Louisiana was pretty much out of the war after the fall of Vicksburg and union control of the Mississippi in the summer of 1863. It would make no sense to burn anything there since none of their goods went to the Confederate side.
He didn’t found LSU; he was its first superintendent. And he was never deployed in Louisiana.
He was actually born in Ohio.