| Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 842 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. Our officers and men on duty worked well to extinguish the flames ; but others not on duty, including... | |
| 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
...moved into the streets and fired, to prevent our making use of it. Bales were piled everywhere, tho rope and bagging cut, and tufts of cotton were blown...During the 18th and 19th the arsenal, depots, machine shopa, founderies, etc., were destroyed, and the railway broken up to KingsviJle and Wateree Bridge.... | |
| William Tecumseh Sherman - Atlanta Campaign, 1864 - 1865 - 220 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. Our officers and men on duty worked well to extinguish the flames ; but others not on duty, including... | |
| Samuel Millard Bowman, Richard Biddle Irwin - United States - 1865 - 572 pages
...agency in thfe 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. Our officers and men on duty worked well to extinguish the flames ; but others not on duty, including... | |
| Samuel Millard Bowman, Richard Biddle Irwin - Bookbinding - 1865 - 568 pages
...agency in this fire, but, on the contrary, claim that we saved what of Columbia remains uuconsumed. And, without hesitation, I charge General Wade Hampton...sense, in filling it with lint, cotton, and tinder. Our officers and men on duty worked well to extinguish the flames ; but others not on duty, including... | |
| Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Presidents - 1865 - 902 pages
...contrary, claim that we saved what of Columbia remains unconsumed. And, without hesitation, I charge Gen. Wade Hampton with having burned his own city of Columbia,...sense, in filling it with lint, cotton, and tinder. Our officers and men on duty worked well to extinguish the flames; but others not on duty, including... | |
| George Ward Nichols - History - 1865 - 414 pages
...claim that we saved what of Columbia remains unconsumcd. And, without hesitation, I charge General Wnde Hampton with having burned his own city of Columbia,...sense, in filling it with lint, cotton, and tinder. Our officers and men on duty worked well to extinguish the flames ; but others not on duty, including... | |
| 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.... | |
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