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Hartford (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 31
's statements, and there is reason to hope that the whole subject will be scrutinized with less prejudice than was possible ten or fifteen years ago. General Sherman's latest statement touching the burning of Columbia, made at an Army Reunion at Hartford last week, is as follows: The fire originated in Richardson street, near where I saw with my own eyes burning cotton bales, which had been set on fire by Confederate cavalry. I was supreme in command inside of Columbia during the night of toops for vengeance! General Sherman forgets—or he says what is untrue. We are constrained to believe that he wilfully mis-states the facts. This we believe, because he has done it before. In his Memoirs (page 287) and, in substance, in his Hartford speech, General Sherman says that the fire which destroyed Columbia was accidental On the same page he says: In my official report of this conflagration I distinctly charged it to General Wade Hampton, and confess I did so pointedly, to shake th
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 31
ch, 1884, under the heading, How they made South Carolina Howl —Letter from one of Sherman's Bummer you can hold Lee, I could go on and smash South Carolina all to pieces. On the 18th, General Hals feeling was toward the country people in South Carolina, it was universal. I first saw its fruitsurnings, pillage, devastation committed in South Carolina, magnify all I have said of Georgia some fary 30, 1865, says: The actual invasion of South Carolina has begun. The well-known sight of columnagain. This time, houses are burning, and South Carolina has commenced to pay an instalment, long oGeorgia, and before we have done with her, South Carolina will not be quite so tempestuous. I wil insatiable desire to wreak vengeance upon South Carolina. I almost tremble at her fate; but feel thfor this, and that nothing was too bad for South Carolina. But for what follows, it might have beennd professed to be the special champion of South Carolina. Knowing, by his own account, that the fi[10 more...]
Charlotte (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 31
eral Beauregard, his superior officer, on the morning that the Union forces came in, to issue an order that the cotton should not be burned, and that there was not a bale on fire when the Federals entered the town. General Beauregard says that this statement is correct, and that the only thing on fire, at the time of the evacuation, was the depot building of the South Carolina railroad, which caught fire accidentally from the explosion of some ammunition ordered to be sent towards Charlotte, North Carolina. Mayor Goodwyn and Aldermen Stork and McKenzie certify that General Stone was in possession of the city an hour before General Sherman arrived, and that when they passed the cotton with Stone it was not on fire, and that it did not take fire for some time after the authority was vested in him. Alderman Stork says further, that he saw the Yankee soldiers light their cigars and throw the matches in among the cotton, and Captain Pratt, of the Union army, said to Alderman McKenzie:
Savannah (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 31
n, with which I propose to destroy Macon, Augusta, and, it may be, Savannah and Charleston. By this I propose to demonstrate the vulnerabilite and Augusta, and bring up with 60,000 men on the sea-shore about Savannah or Charleston. To General Thomas, from Kingston, November 11: Lhis head of column. December 18th. To General Grant, from near Savannah: With Savannah in our possession, at some future time, if not now,Savannah in our possession, at some future time, if not now, we can punish South Carolina as she deserves, and as thousands of people in Georgia hope we will do. I do sincerely believe that the whole Un General Gillmore, advising him to draw forces from Charleston and Savannah (both then in Federal hands) to destroy a railroad, etc. As to thefeel disposed to be over generous, and should not hesitate to burn Savannah, Charleston and Wilmington, or either of them, if the garrisons weSherman to General W. H. Halleck, dated Headquarters in the Field, Savannah, December 24, 1864. It is given in full. General Sherman says:
Milledgeville (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 31
see, while I break up the railroad in front of Dalton, including the city of Atlanta, and push into Georgia and break up all its railroads and depots, capture its horses and negroes, make desolation everywhere; destroy the factories at Macon, Milledgeville and Augusta, and bring up with 60,000 men on the sea-shore about Savannah or Charleston. To General Thomas, from Kingston, November 11: Last night we burned Rome, and in two more days will burn Atlanta (which he was then occupying). Dence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate, but feel that she deserves all that seems in store for her. I look upon Columbia as quite as bad as Charleston, and I doubt if we shall spare the public buildings there as we did at Milledgeville. And now we look with interest for the dispatches that would settle the vexed question as to whether Sherman, or his officers, acting under his orders, burned Columbia on the 17th of February. Unfortunately, a paternal government, not th
Orangeburg, S. C. (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 31
e darkest night, the crackling pine woods shooting up their columns of flame, and the burning houses along the way would light it on. * * * As for the wholesale burnings, pillage, devastation committed in South Carolina, magnify all I have said of Georgia some fifty-fold, and then throw in an occasional murder, just to bring an old hard-fisted cuss to his senses, and you have a pretty good idea of the whole thing. Besides compelling the enemy to evacuate Charleston, we destroyed Columbia, Orangeburg, and several other places, also over fifty miles of railroad, and thousands of bales of cotton. Major Nichols, of General Sherman's staff, in his History, under date of January 30, 1865, says: The actual invasion of South Carolina has begun. The well-known sight of columns of black smoke meets our gaze again. This time, houses are burning, and South Carolina has commenced to pay an instalment, long overdue, on her debt to justice and humanity. With the help of God, we will have princip
Marietta (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 31
ight, and meets my entire approval; and to make the matter complete, you will arrest the owners and employees and send them under guard, charged with treason, to Marietta, and I will see as to any man in America hoisting the French flag, and then devoting his labor and capital to supplying armies in open hostility to our governmen I repeat my orders that you arrest all people, male and female, connected with those factories, no matter what the clamor, and let them foot it, under guard, to Marietta, whence I will send them by cars to the North. Destroy and make the same disposition of all mills, save small flouring mills manifestly for local use; but all sr the use of the United States hospitals; and I have ordered General Garrard to arrest for treason all owners and employees, foreign and native, and send them to Marietta, whence I will send them North. Being exempt from conscription, they are as much governed by the rules of war as if in the ranks. The women can find employmen
Hampton (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 31
oldiers; that this fire did not cause the general conflagration, and that the town was set fire to by Federal soldiers, at one time and in different places, and apparently at a given signal. Nay, in Dr. Trezevant's pamphlet General Sherman is quoted by Mayor Goodwyn as telling him, the morning after the city was burnt, that he regretted very much that it was burned, and that it was the Mayor's fault in suffering liquor to remain in the city when it was evacuated. There was no word then of Hampton's cavalry and Confederate cotton. How, too, was the fire stopped? At three or four o'clock the next morning General Sherman gave this order to Captain Andrews: This thing has gone far enough. See that a stop is put to it. Take Wood's division, and I hold you and them responsible, if it is not arrested. The fire then was quickly stopped. By his own showing, General Sherman allowed the fire to go on for hours, when he could have caused it to be extinguished. This, however, is not the qu
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 31
ords show that, throughout the war, there was but one officer in the military service of the United States with that name, and he was not in Sherman's army, and did not—as is implied in the directionhe owner of the woollen factory displayed the French flag, but as he failed also to show the United States flag, General Garrard burned it also. The main cotton factory was valued at a million of UnUnited States dollars. The cloth on hand is reserved for the use of the United States hospitals; and I have ordered General Garrard to arrest for treason all owners and employees, foreign and native, United States hospitals; and I have ordered General Garrard to arrest for treason all owners and employees, foreign and native, and send them to Marietta, whence I will send them North. Being exempt from conscription, they are as much governed by the rules of war as if in the ranks. The women can find employment in Indianaand as thousands of people in Georgia hope we will do. I do sincerely believe that the whole United States, North and South, would rejoice to have this army turned loose on South Carolina, to devasta
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 31
ts way to the streets of Columbia. It so happens, also, that no officer named Thomas J. Myers—the name purporting to be signed to the document you have reprinted— belonged to General Sherman's army. The records show that, throughout the war, there was but one officer in the military service of the United States with that name, and he was not in Sherman's army, and did not—as is implied in the direction, Boston, Mass., and the reference in the letter to the Old Bay State—belong to any Massachusetts regiment. Alas, cries the weeping Thomas, it (the captured jewelry) will be scattered all over the North and Middle States. It so happens, also, that of the ninety regiments of Sherman's army which might have passed on the march near Camden, South Carolina, but a single one—a New Jersey regiment—was from the Middle States. All the rest were from the West—never called the North, in the local idiom of Western people. A letter from the only Thomas J. Myers ever in the army would
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