 | Samuel Giles Buckingham - Connecticut - 1894 - 572 pages
...having biirnuil his own Hi y of C'olumhln, not with a malicious Intent, or ns the manifestation of n silly ' Roman stoicism.' 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. Hut others not on duty. Including... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - History - 1902 - 886 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... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett, Charles Walter Brown - Presidents - 1902 - 888 pages
...contrary, claim that we saved what of Columbia remains unooneumed. And, without hesitation, I charge Gen. Wade Hampton with having burned his own city of Columbia,...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 Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - History - 1902 - 898 pages
...on the contrary, claim that we saved what of Columbia remains unconsumed. And without hesitation .1 charge General Wade Hampton with having burned his...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. Our officers... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1869 - 880 pages
...contrary, claim that we saved what of Columbia remains unconsnmed. And, without hesitation, I charge Gen. Wade Hampton with having burned his own city of Columbia,...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... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - Great Britain - 1909 - 370 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... | |
 | Military Historical Society of Massachusetts - Atlantic States - 1912 - 642 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,... | |
 | Indiana - 1915 - 424 pages
...dispute over the burning of Columbia : "And without hesitation I charged General Wade Hampton with haying burned his own city of Columbia, not with a malicious...sense, in filling it with lint, cotton and tinder." — Report of MAJOB GENEBAL WILLIAM T. SHEBMAN, dated Goldsborough, NC, April 4, 1865. "In my official... | |
 | Edwin Wiley - United States - 1915 - 566 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...with having burned his own city of Columbia not with malicious intent or as a manifestation of a silly ' Roman stoicism ' but from folly and want of sense... | |
 | 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...sense, in filling it with lint, cotton and tinder." — Report of Major General William T. Sherman, dated Goldsborough, NC, April 4, 1865. "In my official... | |
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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... 
