Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea .. . n duty |witlilii the city. The whole of Woods division was ?]brought In, but it was found Impossible to check the jflames, which by midnight had become unmanageable, jand raged until about four a. m., when, the wind sub- ]siding, they were got under control. j The ToAvii Fired by Confederates. j I was up nearly all night, and saw Generals How- jard, Loofan, Wood, and others laborine to save houses ,-and to protect families thus suddenly deprived of \shelter and of bedding and wearing apparel. I dis- :>
Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea .. . n duty |witlilii the city. The whole of Woods division was ?]brought In, but it was found Impossible to check the jflames, which by midnight had become unmanageable, jand raged until about four a. m., when, the wind sub- ]siding, they were got under control. j The ToAvii Fired by Confederates. j I was up nearly all night, and saw Generals How- jard, Loofan, Wood, and others laborine to save houses ,-and to protect families thus suddenly deprived of \shelter and of bedding and wearing apparel. I dis- :>claim on the part of my army any agency in this fire, jbut, on the contrary, claim that we saved what of Co- jlumbla remains unconsumed. And, without hesitation, jI charge General Wade Hampton with having burned ;,his own city of Columbia, not with a malicious intent Ior as the manifestation of a silly Roman stoicism, kbut from folly and want of sense in filling it with lint, ?cotton, and tinder. Our officers and men on dutyworked well to extincruish the flames; but others not j i. MAP SHOWING THE ENTRANCE TO CAPE FEAR RIVER AND APPROACHESTO WILMINGtON. N. C. 460 GENERAL SHERMAN. ^i on duty, including the officers who had long been iimprisoned there, rescued by us, may have assisted in spreading the fire after it had once begun, and may ;liave indulged in unconcealed joy to see the ruin ofthe capital of South Carolina. During the i8th and i19th the arsenal, railroad depots, machine-shops, ifoundries, and other buildings were properly de- ^stroyed by detailed working-parties, and the railroad itrack torn up and destroyed to Kingsville and the iWateree bridge and up in the direction of Winnsboro. Without unnecessary delay the columns were againiput in motion, directed on Fayetteville, North Carolina, :the ricrht wine crossing the Pedee at Cheraw and the ileft winor and cavalry at Sneedsboro. General Kil- ,patrick was ordered to keep well on the left flank, and ;the Fourteenth cor
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