 | Stella S. Coatsworth - Chicago (Ill.) - 1866 - 728 pages
...moved into the streets and fired, to prevent our making use of it. Bales were piled everywhere, the rope and bagging cut, and tufts of cotton were blown...During the 18th and 19th the arsenal, depots, machine shops, founderies, etc., were destroyed, and the railway broken up to Kingsville and Wateree Bridge.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | J. T. Headley - History - 1866 - 774 pages
...agency in this fire, but, on the contrary, claim that we saved what of Columbia remains uneonsuined. 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - Generals - 1866 - 794 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Henry Charles Fletcher - United States - 1866 - 600 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...malicious intent, or as the manifestation of a silly " Eoman stoicism," but from folly and want of sense, in filling it with lint, cotton, and tinder. Our... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - United States - 1866 - 662 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...city of Columbia, not with a malicious intent, or as a manifestation of a silly Roman stoicism, but from folly and want of sense in filling it with lint,... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1866 - 436 pages
...claim that we saved what of Columbia remains unconsumed. And without hesitation I charge General \Vade Hampton with having burned his own city of Columbia,...intent, or as the manifestation of a silly " Roman sioicisuv' but from folly and want of sense, in filling it with lint, cotton, and tinder. Our officers... | |
 | George Whitfield Pepper - 1866 - 536 pages
...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... | |
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And, without hesitation, I charge General Wade Hampton with having burned his own city of Columbia, not with a malicious intent, or as the manifestation of a silly " Roman stoicism," but from folly and want of sense in filling it with lint, cotton, and... 
