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The courthouse was estimated to be worth $80,000; Colonel A. K. McClure's residence, $20,000; the German Reform printing establishment, $15,000; a banking-house, $20,000. In all, eleven squares were totally destroyed.
In these houses there were all the household effects of these unfortunate citizens, which included fifty-nine pianos.
The total loss in everything was estimated to be over a million of dollars.
I have seen gentlemen from Chambersburg recently, who tell me that the burned squares have been replaced with handsome new buildings, much superior to those we destroyed.
In the centre of the public square has been erected a monument commemorating the burning of the city by the ‘Rebels’ in 1864.
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Table of Contents:
War Diary of
Capt.
Robert
Emory
Park
,
Twelfth Alabama Regiment
.
January
28th
,
1863
—
January
27th
,
1864
.
Fragments of war history relating to the coast defence of
South Carolina
,
1861
-‘
65
, and the hasty preparations for the
Battle of Honey Hill
,
November
30
,
1864
.
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