... but to spare all dwellings, colleges, schools, asylums, and harmless private property. I was the first to cross the pontoon bridge, and in company with General Howard rode into the city. The day was clear, but a perfect tempest of wind was raging.... Sherman and His Campaigns: A Military Biography - Page 336by Samuel Millard Bowman, Richard Biddle Irwin - 1865 - 512 pagesFull view - About this book
| Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...an enemy ; but to spare all dwellings, colleges, schools, asylums, and harmless private property. I Gen. Howard, rode into the city. The day was clear; but a perfect tempest. of wind was raging. The... | |
| William Tecumseh Sherman - Atlanta Campaign, 1864 - 1865 - 220 pages
...an enemy, but to spare all dwellings, colleges, schools, asylums, and harmless private property. I was the first to cross the pontoon bridge, and in...prevailed. General Wade Hampton, who commanded the Confedarate rear-guard of cavalry, had, in anticipation of our capture of Columbia, ordered that all... | |
| George Ward Nichols - History - 1865 - 414 pages
...an enemy, but to spare nil dwcllinga, colleges, schools, asylums, and harmless private property. I was the first to cross the pontoon bridge, and in...general good order prevailed. General Wade Hampton, who commando! the Confederate rear-guard of cavalry, had, in anticipation of our captura of Columbia, ordered... | |
| Thomas Mears Eddy - Illinois - 1866 - 736 pages
...enemy, but to spare all dwellings, colleges, schools, asylums and harmless private property. I was first to cross the pontoon bridge, and in company...order prevailed. General Wade Hampton, who commanded tha rebel rear-guard of cavalry, had, in anticipation of our capture of Columbia, ordered that all... | |
| Phineas Camp Headley - Generals - 1866 - 794 pages
...an enemy, but to spare all dwellings, colleges, schools, asylums, and harmless private property. I was the first to cross the pontoon bridge, and in...General Wade Hampton, who commanded the Confederate rear-gnard of cavalry, bad, in anticipation of. our capture of Columbia, ordered that all cotton, public... | |
| Stella S. Coatsworth - Chicago (Ill.) - 1866 - 728 pages
...enemy, but to spare all dwellings, colleges, schools, asylums and harmless private property. I was first to cross the pontoon bridge, and in company...prevailed. General Wade Hampton,, who commanded the rebel rear-guard of cavalry, had, in anticipation of our capture of Columbia, ordered that all cotton,... | |
| Edmund Burke - Books - 1866 - 712 pages
...news arrived that iColumbia had surrendered, and General Sherman entered the town. He says : — " I was the first to cross the pontoon bridge, and, in...and was properly posted. Citizens and soldiers were in the streets, and general good order prevailed. General Wade Hampton, who commanded the Confederate... | |
| J. T. Headley - History - 1866 - 772 pages
...an enemy, but to spare all dwellings, colleges, schools, asylums, and harmless private property. I was the first to cross the pontoon bridge, and in...brigade of Colonel Stone was already in the city, and properly posted. Citizens and soldiers were on the streets and general good order prevailed. General... | |
| Edmund Burke - Books - 1866 - 750 pages
...General Sherman entered the town. lie says : — " I was the first to cross the pontoon bridge, and, m company with General Howard, rode into the city. The...and was properly posted. Citizens and soldiers were in the streets, and general good order prevailed. General Wade Hampton, who commanded the Confederate... | |
| United States. War Department - 1866 - 436 pages
...an enemy, but to spare all dwellings, colleges, schools, asylums, and harmless private property. I was the first to cross the pontoon bridge, and in...was clear, but a perfect tempest of wind was raging. Th;i brigade of Colonel Stone was already in the city, and was pioperly posted. Citizens and soldiers... | |
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