Yep. And simple retaliation was also common involving the burning of civilian property.
The house where John Winn's sisters lived after the war (in West Virginia) was one of several ordered burned by General David Hunter in retaliation for the burning of Maryland governor Augustus Bradford's house (which was itself in retaliation for Hunter's burning of Virginia governor John Letcher's house). The owner was, at the time, in the Confederate army. However, the owner's wife was able to use some pre-war political connections to appeal to Lincoln who wrote an order specifically exempting her house from burning (and, I presume, letting the others be burned). The owner of the house had nothing to do with the burning of the governor's house and I doubt neither did the owners of the houses that were burned in retaliation.
General Henry Halleck wrote an article in 1864 titled "
Retaliation in War," where the act of retaliation against others than the actual person or persons that had committed the original act, is addressed in the following excerpt:
1. That retaliation is a well settled principle of the modern law of war, and is resorted to by the most civilized and Christian people.
2. It must not be applied in a spirit of revenge nor, unnecessarily as a punishment; the object of its use being to prevent a repetitionof the offence or crime which is retaliated on the enemy.
3. Retaliation may be, as the word indicates, literally in kind, that is, " an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth," or in a more general sense, other countervailing measures being adopted by way of retaliation.
4. The law of retaliation in war has its limits, as well as criminal law in time of peace, the object of both being, not revenge, but prevention; not primarily the punishment of the individual offender, but to deter others from a like crime.
5. As in time of peace we generally punish only the guilty party, so in time of war we generally retaliate only on the individual offender. But there are exceptions in both cases. Thus, all the members of a town or corporation are held responsible in damages for the neglect or carelessness of their agents; so, in war, a city, an army, or an entire community, is sometimes punished for the illegal acts of its rulers or individual members.