Uhhhhhhhhhh, I believe he is referring to the war crimes of Sherman's March, Sheridan's destruction of the Shenandoah Valley, and Reconstruction's rape of the Southern states. Reconstruction and Sherman's March were nothing more than official excuses for pillaging and plundering the private homes of the wealthy Southerners. I daresay the Yankees would've howled forever had Lee allowed his troops to conduct themselves in the same manner as Sherman did. And I quote - 'On August 4, 1863 W.T. Sherman in camp on Big Black River, Mississippi, wrote to Grant at Vicksburg, "The amount of burning, stealing, and plundering done by our army makes me ashamed of it. I would quit the service if I could, because I fear that we are drifting to the worst sort of vandalism ... You and I and every other commander must go through the war justly charged with crimes at which we blush.'(emphasis is mine)
'General Bussey on March 8, 1865, reported to Major General Joseph J. Reynolds, Department of Arkansas: There are several thousand families within the limits of this command who are related to and dependent on the Arkansas soldiers in our service. These people have nearly been robbed of everything they had by the troops of this command, and are now left destitute and compelled to leave their homes to avoid starvation ... In most instances everything has been taken and no receipts given, the people turned out to starve, and their effects loaded into trains and sent to Kansas.' - 'The Uncivil War: Union Army and Navy Excesses in the Official Records' by Thomas Bland Keys copyright 1991. This book is an excellent chronicle of Yankee atrocities perpetrated on Southern civilians and it comes from the Official Archives of the US Army and Navy. This is what the man is talking about and it in no way makes him "out there on some wavelength".