Yeah, like the Union really tried to 'win the hearts and minds' of the southerners...
Both Grant and Sherman offered very generous terms to the defeated armies in their front.
Compare what happened in the United States after the ACW with any other failed revolution.
In fact, until it was clear that southerners fully intended to reinstall slavery in all but name, you don't see much retribution at all.
Walt
"We cannot change the hearts of these people of the South but we can make war so terrible...make them so sick of war that generations will pass before they ever again appeal to it." -- William T. Sherman