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Sherman was by today's standard a war criminal, he is responsible for many women and childrens deaths. Since the North won the war he is considered a hero.

Then I assume you would you the commanders of the U.S. strategic bombing efforts during World War 2 - Arthur Harris, Curtis LeMay, Carl Spaatz - to be war criminals as well?

Wouldn't it be funny if this eventually went so far as to remove monuments to World War II leaders? Those who ordered bombings of German and Japanese cities. Certain officers for forcing men to cross the channel and jump out of boats in the face of German bullets on D-Day. Truman, for nuking the Japanese. Every action in past wartime can be argued to be a war crime by someone using modern feelings and emotion. Some would say we should have negotiated with Hitler, or stood down after Pearl Harbor as to not interfere with Japanese rights to expand. Life isn't black and white, which is why Confederate statues have every right to be there. Once you try to cast the world in absolutes based on present-day skewed morals (such as antifa or blm) the end is that all history MUST be erased. It isn't just ignorance driving this, but necessity. If contemporary northern and southerners could shake hands across the battlefields after blood had been shed for four years, how can these race baiters claim the peace is now intolerable? Answer: if you erase all that nasty reconciliation you can keep up the "fight" between races forever.

Sadly I don't think the GOP has any better sense of history than the people throwing the tow straps over General Lee.