Really? Cause Sherman directly sanctioned murder in multiple cases, not to mention many other things such as arson, theft, and looting. In one case he even went so far as to assert he would protect his sanctioned looters life for life if anybody tried to stop them. Granted, I don't think Sherman ever sanctioned rape, though Butler did in New Orleans. Here's just a small sample of the many, many yankee sanctions and concessions of atrocities by northern commanders:
"I will not only retaliate as I have already mentioned, but there shall not be a house left standing within reach of my scouting parties along my line of march, nor will I be responsible for the conduct of my soldiers, who will not only be allowed but encouraged to take a fearful revenge." - Gen. J. Kilpatrick, US, notifying confederate command of his explicitly ordered retaliation against southern civilians who had shot at the yankee looters and arsonists, February 22, 1865
"You speak in your communication of my threat to burn houses, &c., as being "too brutal for you or your Government to entertain." No matter how brutal it may seem, I have the power and will enforce it to the letter , and more, lf this course is persisted in, I will not only allow but encourage my people to retaliate man forman. I shall take no action for the present." - Gen J. Kilpatrick, US, responding to the confederate answer to the previous quote in which it was pointed out that his men were engaging in warfare against civilians, February 23, 1865
"I hold about 1,000 prisoners captured in various ways, and can stand it as long as you; but I hardly think these murders are committed with your knowledge, and would suggest that you give notice to the people at large that every life taken by them simply results in the death of one of your Confederates. Of course you cannot question my right to "forage on the country." It is a war right as old as history. The manner of exercising it varies with circumstances, and if the civil authorities will supply my requisitions I will forbid all foraging. But I find no civil authorities who can respond to calls for forage or provisions, therefore must collect directly of the people. I have no doubt this is the occasion of much misbehavior on the part of our men, but I cannot permit an enemy to judge or punish with wholesale murder. Personally I regret the bitter feelings engendered by this war, but they were to be expected, and I simply allege that those who struck the first blow and made war inevitable ought not, in fairness, to reproach us for the natural consequences. I merely assert our war right to forage and my resolve to protect my foragers to the extent of life for life. " - Gen. W.T. Sherman, US, to Gen. W. Hampton, CS, informing him of his ordered continuation and sanction for northern looting of southern civilian property, February 24, 1865
"I expect Kilpatrick here this p.m. and will send him well to the left. He reports that two men of his foraging parties were murdered after capture by the enemy and labeled "Death to all foragers." Now, it is clearly our war right to subsist our army on the enemy. Napoleon always did it, but could avail himself of the civil powers he found in existence to collect forage and provisions by regular impressments. We cannot do that here, and I contend if the enemy fails to defend his country we may rightfully appropriate what we want. If our foragers act under mine, yours, or other proper authority, they must be protected. I have ordered Kilpatrick to select of his prisoners man for man, shoot them, and leave them by the roadside labeled, so that our enemy will see that for every man he executes he takes the life of one of his own." - William T. Sherman to Major-General Howard, Commanding Right Wing, February 23, 1865
"Send over about Fairmount and Adairsville, burn ten or twelve houses of known secessionists, kill a few at random, and let it be known that it will be repeated every time a train is fired upon rom Resaca to Kingston" - Gen. William T. Sherman, orders to Gen. Louis Watkins, 1864
"Our armies traverse the land and waves of disaffection, sedition and crime close in behind and our track disappears. But one thing is certain, there is a class of people, men, women, and children who must be killed or banished before we can hope for peace and order even as far South as Tennessee." - Gen. William T. Sherman, letter to Stanton, June 21, 1864
"Every time the telegraph wire is cut we would burn a house; every time a train was fired upon we would hang a man; and we would continue to do this until every house was burned and every man hanged between Decatur and Bridgeport." - Col. John Beatty, US, recollection of events in Paint Rock, Alabama
"As the officers and soldiers of the United States have been subject to repeated insult from the women (calling themselves ladies) of New Orleans, in return for the most scrupulous non-interference and courtesy on our part, it is ordered that hereafter when any female shall, by word, gesture, or movement, insult or show contempt for any officer or soldier of the United States, she shall be regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation." - Gen. Benjamin Butler, orders to federal troops to use female civilians meeting the said qualifications as prostitutes, May 15, 1862
"For five days, ten thousand of our men worked hard and with a will, in that work of destruction, with axes, sledges, crowbars, clawbars, and with fire, and I have no hesitation in pronouncing the work well done. Meridian with its Depots, Storehouses, Arsenals, offices, Hospitals, Hotels, and Cantonments, no longer exists." - Gen. William T. Sherman to Gen. Grant, 1864
"My movement to Meridian stampeded all Alabama. Polk retreated across the Tombigbee and left me to break railroads and smash things at pleasure ...We lived off the country and made a swath of desolation 50 miles broad across the State of Mississippi" - Gen. William T. Sherman to Gen. Henry Halleck, 1864
So bring on the names and the details.