Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea .. . nd -imachinery useful in war to an enemy, but to spare all |dwellings, colleges, schools, asylums, and harmless ;]private property. I was the first to cross the pontoon- Jbridge, and in company with General Howard rode ]into the city. The day was clear, but a perfect tem- ;pe»st of wind was raging. The brigade of Colonel iSione was already in the city, and was properly ^posted. Citizens and soldiers were on the streets jand general good order prevailed. ? General Wade Hampton, who commanded the Con- ifede
Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea .. . nd -imachinery useful in war to an enemy, but to spare all |dwellings, colleges, schools, asylums, and harmless ;]private property. I was the first to cross the pontoon- Jbridge, and in company with General Howard rode ]into the city. The day was clear, but a perfect tem- ;pe»st of wind was raging. The brigade of Colonel iSione was already in the city, and was properly ^posted. Citizens and soldiers were on the streets jand general good order prevailed. ? General Wade Hampton, who commanded the Con- ifederate rear-guard of cavalry, Iiad, in anticipation of \our capture of Columbia, ordered that all cotton, :.*public and private, should be moved into the streets :-and fired, to prevent our making use of it. Bales ;:were piled everywhere, the rope and bagging cut, and Jtufts of cotton were blown about in the wind, lodoed •in the trees and against houses, so as to resemble a ]snow-storm. Some of these piles of cotton were burn- jing, especially one in the very heart of the city near ;. HARLESTON HARBOR AND ITS APPROACHES, SHOWING FORTS SUMTER ANDVvAGNER, JAMES ISLAND, Etc., Etc. 457 458 GENERAL SHERMAN. j the court-house, but the was partially subdued by \the labor of our soldiers. During the day, the Fif- Iteenth corps passed through Columbia and out on the !Camden road. The Seventeenth did not enter the ^town at all, and the left wing and cavalry did not ]come within ten miles of the town. Before one single public building had been hred by ;:order, the smouldering tires set by Hamptons order .were rekindled by the wind and communicated to the •buildings around. About dark they began to spread, iand got beyond the control of the brigade on 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
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