 | History - 1916 - 326 pages
...official reports will show something of the bitterness of the dispute over the burning of Columbia: "And without hesitation I charge General Wade Hampton...intent, or as the manifestation of a silly 'Roman stoicism,1 but from folly and want of sense, in filling it with lint, cotton and tinder." — Report... | |
 | Edwin Wiley, Irving Everett Rines, Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1916 - 606 pages
...of Columbia not with malicious intent or as a manifestation of a silly ' Roman stoicism ' but f ro:n folly and want of sense in filling it with lint, cotton and timber." Southern writers accuse Sherman of having permitted the burning of Columbia, if he did not... | |
 | Confederate States of America - 1916 - 600 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, not with malicious intent, as the manifestation of a silly Roman stoicism, but from folly and want of sense... | |
 | John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson, William Preston Few, William Kenneth Boyd, William Hane Wannamaker - Civilization - 1926 - 532 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...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... | |
 | John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson, William Preston Few, William Kenneth Boyd, William Hane Wannamaker - Civilization - 1926 - 484 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...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... | |
 | Lloyd Lewis - History - 1993 - 744 pages
...charge General Hampton with having burned his own city of Columbia not with malicious intent . . . but from folly and want of 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 - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 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,...manifestation of a silly ''Roman stoicism," but from folfy and want of sense, in filling it with lint, cotton, and tinder. Our officers and men on duty... | |
 | Robert Kilgo Ackerman - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 382 pages
...any agency in this fire, but, on the contrary, claim we saved what of Columbia remains unconsumed, and without hesitation, I charge General Wade Hampton with having burned his own city, not from a malicious intent . . . , but from folly and want of sense, in filling it with lint, cotton,... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - United States - 1861 - 668 pages
...any agency in the fire, but on the contrary claim that we saved what of Columbia remains unconsumed. And without hesitation I charge General Wade Hampton...folly and want of sense, in filling it with lint, 533 cotton, and tinder. Our officers and men on duty worked well to extinguish the flames ; but others... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1866 - 828 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... | |
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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... 
