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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The burning of Columbia—Affidavit of Mrs. Agnes law. (search)
these guards themselves took lighted candles from the mantelpiece and went up stairs. At the same time other soldiers crowded into the house. My sister followed them up-stairs, but came down very soon to say, They are setting the curtains on fire. Soon the whole house was in a blaze. When those who set fire up-stairs came down they said to me, Old woman, if you do not mean to burn up with your house you had better get out of it. My niece had been carried up to the Taylor house, on Arsenal Hill. I went to the door to see if I could get any person I knew to assist me up there. I had been very sick. I could see no friend-only crowds of Federal soldiers. I was afraid I should fall in the street and be burned up in the flames of the houses blazing on both sides of the street. I had to go alone. I spent that night at the Taylor house, which a Federal officer said should not be burned out of pity for my niece. The next two nights I passed in my garden without any shelter. I h