...laboring to save houses and protect families thus suddenly deprived of shelter, and of bedding and wearing apparel. I disclaim on the part of my army...remains unconsumed. And, without hesitation, I charge Gen. Wade Hampton with having burned his own city of Columbia; not with malicious intent, or as the...

...laboring to save houses and to protect families, thus suddenly deprived of shelter, and of bedding, and , wearing apparel. I disclaim on the part of my army,...that we saved what of Columbia remains unconsumed." He acknowledges, what any one acquainted with armies, would know must be inevitable— that, while...

...laboring to save houses, and to protect families thus suddenly deprived of shelter and of bedding and wearing apparel. I disclaim on the part of my army...contrary, claim that we saved what of Columbia remains uneonsuined. And, without hesitation, I charge General Wade Hampton with having burned his own city...

...laboring to save houses and protect families thus suddenly deprived of shelter, and of bedding and wearing apparel. I disclaim on the part of my army...agency in this fire, but, on the contrary, claim that wo saved what of Columbia remains unconsumed. And, without hesitation, I charge General Wade Hampton...

...this frightful affair, will be in accordance with General Sherman's terse but faithful account of it : "And without hesitation, I charge General Wade Hampton...with having burned his own City of Columbia, not with • malicious intent, nor as a manifestation of Roman stoicism, but from folly and want of sense."...

...this frightful affair, will be in accordance with General Sherman's terse but faithful account of it : "And without hesitation, I charge General Wade Hampton...with having burned his own City of Columbia, not with malicious intent, nor as a manifestation of Roman stoicism, but from folly and want of sense." No living...

...statement of General Sherman in his wellconsidered, remarkable report of the Campaign , of the Carolinas: "And without hesitation I/ charge General Wade Hampton...with having burned his own city of Columbia, not with malicious intent, nor as a manifestation of 'Human stoicism, ' but from folly, and want of sense."...

...be permitted to destroy themselves. " I disclaim," says General Sherman, in his official report, " on the part of my army, any agency in this fire, but, on the contrary, claim that wo saved what of Columbia remains unconsumed. And without hesitation I charge General Wade Hampton...

...statement of General Sherman in his wellconsidered, remarkable report of the Campaign of the Carolinas: "And without hesitation I charge General Wade Hampton with having burned his own city of Columbia, not wilh malicious intent, nor as a manifestation of ' Roman stoicism,' but from folly, and want of sense."...

...Sherman thus vindicates himself in his official report, and charges the atrocity upon Wade Hampton: — " 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...