But of course in war, the victors are never prosecuted. This probably explains why Sherman – and all the other Union Army top command, including Lincoln himself, became more and more murderous when it came to Southern civilians in the latter years of the war. They all understood that if the South was victorious, it would have been well within its rights to hang all of them as war criminals.
-Thomas DiLorenzo
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/11/thomas-dilorenzo/war-crimes-denial/