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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Sherman's method of making war. (search)
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 fork 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: I wish you had burned the whole (of the cotton); it would have saved us trouble, as our orders are to burn all the cotton in town. Moreover, Alderman McKenAlderman McKenzie says it was some time after his return with Stone and Pratt that the cotton was on fire, and when the alarm was given be went to the spot and extinguished the fire, so that it did not at any time blaze out again. The Rev. Mr. Shand, of Columbia, says that the fire in the cotton originated from the fire of the cigars of the Uni