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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 21: closing events of the War.--assassination of the President. (search)
to the proposition made by Johnston. For full particulars of this mission, and of events in North Carolina at that period, the reader is referred to an interesting volume, entitled The Last Ninety Days of the War in North Carolina, by Cornelia Phillips Spencer. Speaking of the interview of the commissioners with General Sherman, Mrs. Spencer says, without comment:--Reference was made to the burning of Columbia. The General remarked, with great emphasis:-- I have been grossly misrepresenteMrs. Spencer says, without comment:--Reference was made to the burning of Columbia. The General remarked, with great emphasis:-- I have been grossly misrepresented. I changed my Headquarters eight times, during that night, and with every general officer under my command, strained every nerve to stop the fire. I declare, in the presence of my God, that Hampton burned Columbia, and that he alone is responsible for it. Sherman made a prompt response to this communication, in which he declared that he was fully empowered to arrange with Johnston any terms for the suspension of further hostilities, as between the armies they respectively commanded, and t