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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 20: Peace conference at Hampton Roads.--the campaign against Richmond. (search)
burst into flames. General Ewell said: I left the City about seven in the morning, and, as yet, nothing had been fired by My orders, yet the buildings and depot near the bridge were on fire, and the flames were so close as to be disagreeable as I rode by them. --[letter of General Ewell to the author.] he also mentions seeing from the hills above Manchester, the flames burst through the roof of a fire-proof mill, on the side farthest from the large warehouses ; and he was informed that Mr. Crenshaw found his mill full of plunderers, who were about to burn it, and he saved it by giving them all the flour. Ewell was offered, by the Ordnance Department, turpentine to mix with the tobacco, to make it burn more fiercely, but he refused to use it because it would endanger the City. After considering all the facts and circumstances, the writer is impressed with the belief, that the humane Ewell never issued the prescribed order for firing the warehouses, but that the work was done by a l