 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 ; but others not on duty, including the officers who had long been imprisoned there, rescued...  Annual Reports of the War Department - Page 1189by United States. War Department - 1866Full view - About this book
 | Whitelaw Reid - Ohio - 1868 - 1134 pages
...first fire: "Officers and men not on duty, including the officers who had long been imprisoned there, may have assisted in spreading the fire after it had...to see the ruin of the capital of South Carolina."* Thus far, feinting eastward and westward and so keeping the enemy scattered, Sherman had in truth marched... | |
 | Whitelaw Reid - Ohio - 1868 - 1172 pages
...first fire: "Officers and men not on duty, including the officers who had long been imprisoned there, may have assisted in spreading the fire after it had...unconcealed joy to see the ruin of the capital of South Carolina.1'* Thus far, feinting eastward and webtward and so keeping the enemy scattered, Sherman had... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - Generals - 1869 - 820 pages
...Our officers and men on duty worked well to extinguish the flames ; but others not on duty, including the officers who had long been imprisoned there, rescued...Carolina. During the 18th and 19th, the arsenal, railroad dep6ts, machine shops, fonnderies, and other buildings, •were properly destroyed by detailed working... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - 1869 - 794 pages
...Our officers and men on duty worked well to ertinguish the flames; but others not on duty, including the officers who had long been imprisoned there, rescued...the capital of South Carolina. During the 18th and l9thi the arsenal, railroad depdts, machine shops, fonnderies, and other buildings, vere properly destroyed... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1869 - 876 pages
...Our officers and men on duty worked well to extinguish the flames ; but others not on duty, including the officers who had long been imprisoned there, rescued...after it had once begun, and may have indulged in concealed joy to see the ruin of the capital of South Carolina. During the 18th and 19th the arsenal,... | |
 | John William Draper - United States - 1870 - 708 pages
...others not on duty, including some officers who had long been imprisoned here, and now were rescued, may have assisted in spreading the fire after it had once begun, and may have gratified their feelings of resentment in the ruin of the capital of South Carolina. These prisoners... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1877 - 674 pages
...duty worked well to extinguish the flames; but others not on duty, including the officers, who hod long been imprisoned there, rescued by us, may have...begun, and may have indulged in unconcealed joy to see tho ruin of tho capital of South Carolina.11* The conduct of tho Confederate troops, and especially... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1902 - 622 pages
...Our officers and men on duty worked well to extinguish the flames ; but others not on duty, including the officers who had long been imprisoned there rescued...to see the ruin of the capital of South Carolina." Howard, in his report, with some modification agrees with his chief, and the account in "The March... | |
 | Willis Fletcher Johnson - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1891 - 634 pages
...Our officers and men on duty worked well to extinguish the flames; but others not on duty, including the officers who had long been imprisoned there, rescued...begun, and may have indulged in unconcealed joy to sec the ruin of the Capital of South Carolina." Columbia, the political capital of the foremost secession... | |
 | Samuel Giles Buckingham - Connecticut - 1894 - 574 pages
...Our officers and men on duty worked well to extinguish the Barnes. But others not on duty. Including the officers who had long been Imprisoned there, rescued...begun, and may have Indulged In unconcealed joy to scr the ruin of the capital of South Carolina." From Columbia northward, General Sherman was not to... | |
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