I cited one example Sherman but did not mention Grants armed former Slaves in Blue uniforms.
OK, then play honestly. Lee freed the slaves from his father-in-laws estate in December 1862, a few months after the date stipulated in the will. Grant personally owned a single slave who he manumitted in 1859 before moving to Illinois. His wife had use of several slaves owned by his father-in-law, and according to Grant's own letters they were freed in early 1863. Grant could not have freed his slaves in 1866 since he didn't live anywhere where slavery was legal - slavery was outlawed by Missouri in January 1865 and in the country as a whole in December 1865.
When the War moved North Lee's Army was under strict Orders to respect Private property and NOT to make War on Civilians...
And order widely disregarded by then men and which didn't apply to the commanders. Lee's army was on a foraging mission in the North. His goal was to gather enough food and supplies from Union territories to help equip his army for the coming months and this was accomplished by taking everything of use to the army that wasn't nailed down. Kent Masterton Brown in his book "Retreat From Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics and the Pennsylvania Campaign" details the extent Lee and his subordinates went to in order to gather supplies, including levying requirements on various Northern towns with a threat to burn them if demands were not met. Letters from confederate soldiers also describe instances of looting and burning and abducting free blacks and taking them South.
If the North suffered less than the South from the armies passing through it's only because confederate armies seldom had the chance to campaign in the North.
I cited one example Sherman but did not mention Grants armed former Slaves in Blue uniforms.
And now that you have, how about citing it accurately?