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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The burning of Columbia, South Carolina-report of the Committee of citizens appointed to collect testimony. (search)
hey dared to rebel against the flag of their country they must die or submit. The plan of subjugation adopted by General Sherman was fully comprehended and approved of by his army. His officers and men universally justified their acts by declaring that it was the way to put down the rebellion by burning and destroying everything. Before the surrender of our town the soldiers of General Sherman, officers and privates, declared that it was to be destroyed. It was, deposes a witness (Mrs. Rosa J. Meetze), the common talk among them (at the village of Lexington) that Columbia was to be burned by General Sherman. At the same place, on the 16th of February, 1865, as deposed to by another witness, Mrs. Frances T. Caughman, the general officer in command of his cavalry forces, General Kilpatrick, said, in reference to Columbia: Sherman will lay it in ashes for them. It was the general impression among all the prisoners we captured, says a Confederate officer, Colonel J. P. Austin, of th