 I disclaim on the part of my army any agency in this fire, but, on the contrary, claim that we saved what of Columbia remains unconsumed. And, without hesitation, I charge General Wade Hampton with having burned his own city of Columbia, not with a malicious...  Sherman and His Campaigns: A Military Biography - Page 343by Samuel Millard Bowman, Richard Biddle Irwin - 1865 - 512 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...contrary, claim that we saved what of Columbia remains uncoDsnmed. And, without hesitation, I charge Gen. them, as well as by deserters from their ranks, that they tore up malicious intent, or as the manifestation of a silly 'Roman stoicism,' but from folly and want of sense,... | |
 | Thomas Mears Eddy - Illinois - 1866 - 736 pages
...caused a bitter correspondence between Hampton and Sherman. Sherman says, with Junius-like severity : " And without hesitation, I charge General Wade Hampton...sense, in filling it with lint, cotton and tinder.' During the 18th and 19th the arsenal, depots, machine shopa, founderies, etc., were destroyed, and... | |
 | BREVET MAJOR GEORGE WARD NICHOLS - 1865 - 404 pages
...agency in this fire, but, on the contrary, claim that we saved what of Columbia remains unconsumed. And, without hesitation, I charge General Wade Hampton...silly "Roman stoicism," but from folly and want of 342 APPENDIX. sense, in filling it with lint, cotton, and tinder. Our officers and men on duty worked... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 878 pages
...contrary, claim that we saved what of Columbia remains uneonBumed. And, without hesitation,, I charge Gen. Wade Hampton, with having burned his own city of Columbia,...malicious intent, or as the manifestation of a silly u Roman stoicism," but from folly and want of sense, in filling it with lint, cotton-, and tinder.... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1865 - 944 pages
...contrary, claim that we saved what of Columbia remains unconsumed. And without hesitation I charge Wade Hampton with having burned his own city of Columbia, not with malicious intent, or as the manifestation of a silly ' Roman stoicism,' but from folly and want of... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - History - 1866 - 602 pages
...agency in this fire, but, on the contrary,-claim that we saved what of Columbia remains unconsumed. And without hesitation I charge General Wade Hampton...men on duty worked well to extinguish the flames; hut others not on duty, including the officers who had long been imprisoned there, rescued by us, may... | |
 | Stella S. Coatsworth - Chicago (Ill.) - 1866 - 728 pages
...caused a bitter correspondence between Hampton and Sherman. Sherman says, with Junius-like severity : " And without hesitation, I charge General Wade Hampton...sense, in filling it with lint, cotton and tinder.' During the 18th and 19th the arsenal, depots, machine shops, founderies, etc., were destroyed, and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Books - 1866 - 750 pages
...any agency in this fire, but on the contrary claim that we saved what of Columbia remains unconsumed. And without hesitation I charge General Wade Hampton...sense in filling it with lint, cotton, and tinder." The left wing of the Federals, under General Slocum, reached Winnsboro' on the 21st of February, and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Books - 1866 - 712 pages
...any agency in this fire, but on the contrary claim that we saved what of Columbia remains unconsumed. And without hesitation I charge General Wade Hampton...sense in filling it with lint, cotton, and tinder." The left wing of the Federals, under General Slocum, reached Winnsboro' on the 21st of February, and... | |
 | Daniel Heyward Trezevant - Columbia (S.C.) - 1866 - 34 pages
...agency in this fire, but on the contrary, claim that we saved what of Columbia remains unconsumed. And without hesitation, I charge General Wade Hampton...but from folly and want of sense, in filling it with Hut, cotton and tinder. Our officers and men on duty worked well to extinguish the flames ; but others... | |
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