. A popular history of the United States of America, from the aboriginal times to the present day. n was compar-atively , theConfederates formeda line of defencealong the Salkhatch-ie and prepared todispute Shermansmarc h n o rth wa was all in passages of theriver were forced,and on the 11th of the month the Confederate lines of communica-tion between Charleston and Augusta were cut off. On the next dayOrangeburg was taken by the Seventeenth Corps. On the 14th thefords and bridges of the Congaree were carried and the State roadopened in the direction of C
. A popular history of the United States of America, from the aboriginal times to the present day. n was compar-atively , theConfederates formeda line of defencealong the Salkhatch-ie and prepared todispute Shermansmarc h n o rth wa was all in passages of theriver were forced,and on the 11th of the month the Confederate lines of communica-tion between Charleston and Augusta were cut off. On the next dayOrangeburg was taken by the Seventeenth Corps. On the 14th thefords and bridges of the Congaree were carried and the State roadopened in the direction of Columbia. The several divisions pressedrapidly forward; bridges were thrown across the Broad and SaludaRivers, and the capital lay at the mercy of the conquerors. On themorning of the 17th Mayor Goodwyn and a committee of the com-mon council came out in carriages and the city was formally sur-rendered. As soon as it became certain that Columbia must fall into thehands of the Federals, General Hardee, the commandant of Charles-ton, determined to abandon that city also, and to join Generals Beau-. GENERAI, SHERMAN. THE CLOSING CONFLICTS. 529 regard and Johnston in North Carolina. Accordingly, on the day ofthe capture of the capital, guards were detailed to destroy all the ware-houses, stores of cotton, and depots of supplies in Charleston. Thetorch was applied, the flames raged, and consternation spread through-out the city. The great depot of the Northwestern Railway, where alarge quantity of powder was stored, caught fire, blew up with terrificviolence, and buried two hundred people in the ruins. Not until foursquares in the best part of the city were laid in ashes was the confla-gration checked. During the same night General Hardee with hisfourteen thousand troops escaped from desolate Charleston and madehis way northward. On the morning of the 18th the news was borneto the National forces on Jamess and Morris Islands. During theforenoon the Stars and Stripes were again raised
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