Regarding preserving a union, we have a so called system of federal, state, and local governments as little able to competently handle larger political and social problems in an ordered and systematic way as we did before the Civil War.
On what caused Katrina, see for example Bobbitt, Terror And Consent, p. 216, 217. I believe the material on Katrina as a man made disaster, analogous in many ways to Sherman's campaign, and to Reconstruction, is voluminous.
From what I have read, Sherman was neither chasing an army, nor retreating from one, nor guarding against one, on his march to the sea. He was neither chasing an army nor retreating from one, nor guarding against one, on his march up the Atlantic Seaboard.
The Emancipation Proclamation is but another blatant example.
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