Another non-Southerner here. It doesn't sound redneck to me at all. *Shakes head* The methods General Sherman used in his attacks were horrible! I've neither read Gone With The Wind nor seen the film version of it, but a little bit was shown in another film called Glory (it was about one of the first all-black regiments to fight on the side of the North during the Civil War), and I've of course read about General Sherman in history books, like you have.