You're up to your eyebrows in Southron mythology, yes.
I read it in horror...
Read it in horror? Read what? Specifics, please. How about some of your sources? As many myths have have been propagated by the lost causers, few attract as many as Sherman's fall 1864 campaign. I had one of you try to tell me, in perfect seriousness, that Sherman salted farm fields from Atlanta to Savannah and that you could still see the sterile land from space. You got anything as colorful as that?
... but you probably get aroused studying the "Torches" Atlanta campaign.
You are a strange individual, aren't you?
Not as strange as the Constitutional wife beater attitude of the Northern Yankee towards any secessionist.