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... The Patriotism of Illinois: A Record of the Civil and Military History of ... - Page 361 by Thomas Mears Eddy - 1866 Full view -
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