Sherman Burnin' : Was It Justified?

There were many awful things in the civil war, but one of the worst in my opinion was Sherman's march to the sea. For some background information, he and the Union troops marched from Atlanta, all the way to the sea, burning everything in sight. They took food and crops from fields and burnt whatever they couldn't carry. They broke into homes and took whatever they wanted, and burnt those houses too. I do not think that these tactics were justified at all, because many many civilians died, and became homeless. Well, all of these things happened because of that march to the sea. I know that it is the civil war, and there is lots of violence, but this much is not valid. Although it did help get a Union victory, it was still a very bad strategy in my opinion. Do you think this was justified? I don't. Now, you have to remember the entire point of the Civil war. To bring America together. So to bring America together, they are just tearing it apart even more than it already was before this.