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J. P. Austin (search for this): chapter 5.41
itness (Mrs. Rosa J. Meetze), the common talk among them (at the village of Lexington) that Columbia was to be burned by General Sherman. At the same place, on the 16th of February, 1865, as deposed to by another witness, Mrs. Frances T. Caughman, the general officer in command of his cavalry forces, General Kilpatrick, said, in reference to Columbia: Sherman will lay it in ashes for them. It was the general impression among all the prisoners we captured, says a Confederate officer, Colonel J. P. Austin, of the Ninth Kentucky cavalry, that Columbia was to be destroyed. On the morning of the same day (February 16, 1865) some of the forces of General Sherman appeared on the western side of the Congaree river, and without a demand of surrender, or any previous notice of their purpose, began to shell the town, then filled. with women, children and aged persons, and continued to do so, at intervals, throughout the day. The Confederate forces were withdrawn and the town restored to the
Barnwell (search for this): chapter 5.41
for the consequences where the army passes. The threats uttered in Georgia were sternly executed by the troops of General Sherman upon their entrance into this State. For eighty miles along the route of his army, through the most highly improved and cultivated region of the State, according to the testimony of intelligent and respectable witnesses, the habitations of but two white persons remained. As he advanced, the villages of Hardeeville, Grahamville, Gillisonville, McPhersonville, Barnwell, Blackville, Midway, Orangeburg and Lexington were successively devoted to the flames; indignities and outrages were perpetrated upon the persons of the inhabitants; the implements of agriculture were broken; dwellings, barns, mills and ginhouses were consumed; provisions of every description appropriated or destroyed; horses and mules carried away, and sheep, cattle and hogs were either taken for actual use or shot down and left behind. The like devastation marked the progress of the inva
G. T. Beauregard (search for this): chapter 5.41
ght endanger the town, and that as the South Carolina railroad had been destroyed, the cotton could not be removed, General Beauregard, upon this representation, directed General Hampton to issue an order that the cotton should not be burned. The proof of this fact is to be found in the written statement of General Beauregard himself. Accordingly, and in due time, the order forbidding the burning of the cotton was issued by General Hampton and communicated to the Confederate troops. The officeneral Hampton assumed command of the cavalry, which he did on the evening of the 16th of February, he told me that General Beauregard had determined not to burn the cotton, as the Yankees had destroyed the railroad, and directed me to issue an order Carolina railroad, which caught fire accidentally from the explosion of some ammunition. This is the statement of General Beauregard himself. It is sustained by the testimony of the officer, high in rank, but higher still in character, who command
M. C. Butler (search for this): chapter 5.41
urpose of surrendering the city to General Sherman. Acting in concert with the Mayor, the officer in command of the rear guard of the Confederate cavalry, General M. C. Butler, forbore from further resistance to the advance of the opposing army, and took effectual precautions against anything being done which might provoke Generary throughout their march through South and North Carolina. The general officer commanding the division forming the rear guard of the Confederate cavalry (General M. C. Butler) deposes: That he was personally present with the rear squadron of his division; that Lieutenant-General Wade Hampton withdrew simultaneously with him, witlf. It is sustained by the testimony of the officer, high in rank, but higher still in character, who commanded the rear guard of the Confederate cavalry (General M. C. Butler), and is concurred in by other witnesses, comprising officers, clergymen and citizens — witnesses of such repute and in such numbers as to render the proof
J. P. Carrol (search for this): chapter 5.41
The burning of Columbia, South Carolina-report of the Committee of citizens appointed to collect testimony. By J. P. Carrol, Chairman. [We have already published most conclusive proofs that General Sherman was responsible for the burning of Columbia; but the following report of the committee of citizens who thoroughly investigated the question, soon after the cruel destruction of their beautiful city, should go on the record as conclusively fixing the. responsibility for that act of vandalism.] The committee who were charged with the duty of collecting the evidence in relation to the destruction of Columbia by fire, on the 17th of February, 1865, submit the following report: By the terms of the resolution appointing them the committee do not feel authorized to deduce any conclusion or pronounce any judgment, however warranted by the proof, as to the person responsible for the crime. Their task will be accomplished by presenting the evidence that has been obtained with an abst
Frances T. Caughman (search for this): chapter 5.41
ustified their acts by declaring that it was the way to put down the rebellion by burning and destroying everything. Before the surrender of our town the soldiers of General Sherman, officers and privates, declared that it was to be destroyed. It was, deposes a witness (Mrs. Rosa J. Meetze), the common talk among them (at the village of Lexington) that Columbia was to be burned by General Sherman. At the same place, on the 16th of February, 1865, as deposed to by another witness, Mrs. Frances T. Caughman, the general officer in command of his cavalry forces, General Kilpatrick, said, in reference to Columbia: Sherman will lay it in ashes for them. It was the general impression among all the prisoners we captured, says a Confederate officer, Colonel J. P. Austin, of the Ninth Kentucky cavalry, that Columbia was to be destroyed. On the morning of the same day (February 16, 1865) some of the forces of General Sherman appeared on the western side of the Congaree river, and without a
Chairman (search for this): chapter 5.41
The burning of Columbia, South Carolina-report of the Committee of citizens appointed to collect testimony. By J. P. Carrol, Chairman. [We have already published most conclusive proofs that General Sherman was responsible for the burning of Columbia; but the following report of the committee of citizens who thoroughly investigated the question, soon after the cruel destruction of their beautiful city, should go on the record as conclusively fixing the. responsibility for that act of vandalism.] The committee who were charged with the duty of collecting the evidence in relation to the destruction of Columbia by fire, on the 17th of February, 1865, submit the following report: By the terms of the resolution appointing them the committee do not feel authorized to deduce any conclusion or pronounce any judgment, however warranted by the proof, as to the person responsible for the crime. Their task will be accomplished by presenting the evidence that has been obtained with an abst
W. F. Desaussures (search for this): chapter 5.41
mes were soon subdued, with slight injury only to one of the cells. About five o'clock in the afternoon, as deposed to by a witness (Mrs. E. Squire), the cotton bales in Sumter street, between Washington and Lady streets, were 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 conflagration began. As already stated, the wind blew from the west, but the fires after night broke out first on the west of Main and Sumter streets, and to windward of where the cotton bales were placed. The cotton, it is testified and proved (Ed. J. Scott, Esq.), instead of burning the houses, was burned by them. General Sherman, as has been shown, on the night of th
Ewing (search for this): chapter 5.41
visit, expressed his regret at the burning of our convent, disclaimed the act, attributing it to the intoxication of his soldiers, and told me to choose any house in town for a convent and it should be ours. He deputed his Adjutant-General, Colonel Ewing, to act in his stead. Colonel Ewing reminded us of General Sherman's offer to give us any house in Columbia we might choose for a convent. We have thought of it, said we, and of asking for General Preston's house, which is large. That is wColonel Ewing reminded us of General Sherman's offer to give us any house in Columbia we might choose for a convent. We have thought of it, said we, and of asking for General Preston's house, which is large. That is where General Logan holds his headquarters, said he, and orders have already been given, I know, to burn it on tomorrow morning; but if you say you will take it for a convent, I will speak to the General and the order will be countermanded. On the following morning, after many inquiries, we learned from the officer in charge (General Perry, I think) that his orders were to fire it unless the Sisters were in actual possession of it, but if even a detachment of Sisters were in it, it should be sp
T. J. Goodwyn (search for this): chapter 5.41
e. While proceeding to her residence, General Sherman began to express his opinion very freely upon the subject of our institution of slavery. In the midst of his remarks he was interrupted by the sudden and near report of a musket; immediately before them, in the direction they were going, they observed a group of Federal soldiers seeming to be excited, and upon approaching they saw a negro lying dead directly in their path, being shot through the heart. General Sherman, the Mayor, Dr. T. J. Goodwyn, narrates, asked of the soldiers how came the negro shot, and was answered that he had been guilty of great insolence to them, and that thereupon General Sherman remarked: Stop this, boys, this is all wrong; take away the body and bury it. General Sherman, continues the Mayor, then stepped over the body of the negro and observed to this deponent that in quiet times such a thing ought to be noticed, but in times like this it cannot be done. General Sherman resumed his conversation i
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