| Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1865 - 944 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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