[Old Professer]

All I know is the north raped, pillaged and burned the deep south as the war was ending in spite or just plain meanness.

I am not from the south.

[Drennan Whyte]

There was pillage and burning enough on both sides, and when the war was far from over. Sherman's actions in Georgia were preceded, on a smaller scale, by confederate looting in Pennsylvania by Lee's men and the burning of Chambersburg by McCausland. It should be noted that a number of other Union cities would have suffered the same fate as Chambersburg except that they met the confederate ransom demands.