In your dreams.
What Confederate general ordered that?
McCausland in the case of Chambersburg. The commander on the scene at Lawrence which was Quantrell. During his campaign in Pennsylvania, Lee's commanders made several threats to burn towns unless their demands for supplies were met.
as a matter of fact, yes. Of course it was the Axis which started the indiscriminate bombings of civilians in Warsaw, Rotterdam, London, Shanghai, etc.
Well then if turnabout is fair play, just consider the burning of Atlanta revenge for burning Chambersburg and I guess that makes it all OK in your eyes, right?
That's a fairy tale you made up. Post a reference.
Lee always went out of his way to NOT to harm civilians or destroy private property. It was his standing order.
The one-off Chambersburg incident was so unusual for the CSA that it was the exception that proved the rule.
In your dreams.
Nope. Death sentences were handed out for less evidence.
The war in Missouri-Kansas was particularly nasty and on the Confederate side, not really under the control of the high command. As for the campaign in Pennsylvania, here are Lee’s orders:
Robert E. Lee,
General Orders, No. 73
Headquarters, Army of Northern Virginia
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania
June 27, 1863
The commanding general has observed with marked satisfaction the conduct of the troops on the march, and confidently anticipates results commensurate with the high spirit they have manifested.
No troops could have displayed greater fortitude or better performed the arduous marches of the past ten days.
Their conduct in other respects has with few exceptions been in keeping with their character as soldiers, and entitles them to approbation and praise.
There have however been instances of forgetfulness on the part of some, that they have in keeping the yet unsullied reputation of the army, and that the duties expected of us by civilization and Christianity are not less obligatory in the country of the enemy than in our own.
The commanding general considers that no greater disgrace could befall the army, and through it our whole people, than the perpetration of the barbarous outrages upon the unarmed, and defenceless [sic] and the wanton destruction of private property that have marked the course of the enemy in our own country.
Such proceedings not only degrade the perpetrators and all connected with them, but are subversive of the discipline and efficiency of the army, and destructive of the ends of our present movement.
It must be remembered that we make war only upon armed men, and that we cannot take vengeance for the wrongs our people have suffered without lowering ourselves in the eyes of all whose abhorrence has been excited by the atrocities of our enemies, and offending against Him to whom vengeance belongeth, without whose favor and support our efforts must all prove in vain.
The commanding general therefore earnestly exhorts the troops to abstain with most scrupulous care from unnecessary or wanton injury to private property, and he enjoins upon all officers to arrest and bring to summary punishment all who shall in any way offend against the orders on this subject.
R. E. Lee
General
No because it was the Federals which started deliberately targeting civilians and who did so on a vastly larger scale and with more consistency than the Confederates ever did.