...e set on fire by General Sherman's wagon train, then passing along the cotton. But the fire was soon extinguished by the efforts of the witness referred to and her family. I saw, says a witness ( John McKenzie , Esq.), fire-balls thrown out of the wagons against Hon. W. F. Desaussures' house, but without doing any damage. No other fires in the town occurred until after night, when the general conflagrati...