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Title: Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea ..
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
Subjects: Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 Generals
Publisher: Philadelphia, National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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egan to spread,-nd got beyond the control of the brigade on dutywithin the city. The whole of Woods division wasbrought in, but it was found impossible to check theflames, which by midnight had become unmanageable,and raged until about four a. m., when, the wind sub-siding, they were got under control. The Town Fired by Confederates. I was up nearly all night, and saw Generals How-ard, Logan, Wood, and others laboring to save housesand to protect families thus suddenly deprived ofhelter and of bedding and wearing apparel. I dis-claim on the part of my army any agency in this fire,but, on the contrary, claim that we saved what of Co-lumbia remains unconsumed. And, without hesitation,I charge General Wade Hampton with having burnedhis own city of Columbia, not with a malicious intentor as the manifestation of a silly Roman stoicism,out from folly and want of sense In filling It with lint,cotton, and tinder. Our officers and men on dutyworked well to extinguish the flames; but others not
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MAP SHOWING THE ENTRANCE TO CAPE FEAR RIVER AND APPROACHESTO WILMINGTON. N. C. 459 460 GENERAL SHERMAN. on duty, including the officers who had long beenimprisoned there, rescued by us, may have assistedin spreading the fire after it had once begun, and mayhave indulged in unconcealed joy to see the ruin ofthe capital of South Carolina. During the i8th andigth the arsenal, railroad depots, machine-shops,foundries, and other buildings were properly de-stroyed by detailed working-parties, and the railroadtrack torn up and destroyed to Kingsville and theWateree bridge and up in the direction of Winnsboro.Without unnecessary delay the columns were againput in motion, directed on Fayetteville, North Carolina,the right wing crossing the Pedee at Cheraw and theleft wing and cavalry at Sneedsboro. General Kil-patrick was ordered to keep well on the left flank, andthe Fourteenth corps, moving by Loves Bridge, wasgiven the right to enter and occupy Fayetteville firstThe weather continued unfavo

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