If you feel that attacking civilians is necessary - In order to Win. With all due respect to General LEE - He should have stepped down.
Shelby, Forrest or William C. Quantrill - may have had the stomach to Rape and Pillage the Yankee populace. I don't it though. They should of hired the German and Italian mercenaries first. Befriended Marx before Lincoln planted his lips on Marx's man toy.
If war is fought by your standards, We will always be second place. Murder of noncombatants in not our cup-of-tea.
Of course he would have. Then I take it that you view men like Curtis LeMay or Arthur Tedder as vile criminals along the lines of William Sherman?