. The South : a tour of its battlefields and ruined cities, a journey through the desolated states, and talks with the people: being a description of the present state of the country - its agriculture - railroads -business and . peated the same story of suffering, violence, poverty, andnakedness. Habitation after habitation, village after village, —one sending up its signal flames to the ither, presaging for itthe same fate, — lighted the winter and midnight sky withcrimson horrors. No language can describe, nor can any catalogue furnish,an adequate detail of the wide-spread destruc
. The South : a tour of its battlefields and ruined cities, a journey through the desolated states, and talks with the people: being a description of the present state of the country - its agriculture - railroads -business and . peated the same story of suffering, violence, poverty, andnakedness. Habitation after habitation, village after village, —one sending up its signal flames to the ither, presaging for itthe same fate, — lighted the winter and midnight sky withcrimson horrors. No language can describe, nor can any catalogue furnish,an adequate detail of the wide-spread destruction of honlesand property. Granaries were emptied, and where the grainwas not Carried off, it was strewn to waste under the feet ofthe cavalry, or consigned to the fire which consumed the dwell-ing. The negroes were robbed equally with the whites offood and clothing. The roads were covered with butcheredcattle, hogs, mules, and the costliest furniture. Valuable cab-inets, rich pianos, were not only hewn to pieces, but bottles ofink, turpentine, oO, whatever could efface or destroy, wereemployed to deflle and ruin. Horses were ridden into thehouses. People were forced from their beds, to permit thesearch after hidden 548 SHERMAN IN SOUTH CAROLINA. The beautiful homesteads of the parish country, with theirwonderful tropical gardens, were ruined; ancient dwellings ofblack cypress, one hundred years old, which had been rearedby the fathers of the Republic, — men whose names were fa-mous in Revolutionary history, — were given to the torch asrecklessly as were the rude hovels ; choice pictures and worksof art from Europe, select and numerous libraries, objects ofpeace wholly, were all destroyed. The inhabitants, black noless than white, were left to starve, compelled to feed onlyupon the garbage to be found in the abandoned camps of thesoldiers. The corn scraped up from the spots where the horsesfed, has been the only means of life left to thousands but latelyin
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