 I disclaim on the part of my army any agency in this fire, but, on the contrary, claim that we saved what of Columbia remains unconsumed. And, without hesitation, I charge General Wade Hampton with having burned his own city of Columbia, not with a malicious...  THE STORY OF THE GREAT MARCH. - Page 341by BREVET MAJOR GEORGE WARD NICHOLS - 1865Full view - About this book
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 842 pages
...HAMPTON, Lieutenant-General." General Sherman says, in his Report of the Campaign of the Carolinas : " I disclaim on the part of my army any agency in this...silly ' Roman stoicism," but from folly and want of sense, in filling it with lint, cotton, and tinder. Our officers and men on duty worked well to extinguish... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...contrary, claim that we saved what of Columbia remains uncoDsnmed. And, without hesitation, I charge Gen. them, as well as by deserters from their ranks, that they tore up malicious intent, or as the manifestation of a silly 'Roman stoicism,' but from folly and want of sense,... | |
 | William Tecumseh Sherman - Atlanta Campaign, 1864 - 1865 - 220 pages
...laboring to save houses and protect families thus suddenly deprived of shelter, and of bedding aud wearing apparel. I disclaim on the part of my army...silly " Roman stoicism," but from folly and want of sense in filling it with lint, cotton, and tinder. Our officers and men on duty worked well to extinguish... | |
 | Samuel Millard Bowman, Richard Biddle Irwin - United States - 1865 - 566 pages
...deprived of shelter and of bedding and wearing apparel. In his official report, Sherman says : — " I disclaim on the part of my army any agency in this...silly ' Roman stoicism,' but from folly and want of sense, in filling it with lint, cotton, and tinder. Our officers and men on duty worked well to extinguish... | |
 | Samuel Millard Bowman, Richard Biddle Irwin - United States - 1865 - 574 pages
...apparel. In his official report, Sherman says :— " I disclaim on the part of my army any agency in thfe fire, but, on the contrary, claim that we saved what...silly ' Roman stoicism,' but from folly and want of sense, in filling it with lint, cotton, and tinder. Our officers and men on duty worked well to extinguish... | |
 | Thomas Mears Eddy - Illinois - 1866 - 736 pages
...caused a bitter correspondence between Hampton and Sherman. Sherman says, with Junius-like severity : " And without hesitation, I charge General Wade Hampton...silly ' Roman stoicism,' but from folly and want of sense, in filling it with lint, cotton and tinder.' During the 18th and 19th the arsenal, depots, machine... | |
 | Samuel Millard Bowman, Richard Biddle Irwin - Bookbinding - 1865 - 568 pages
...agency in this fire, but, on the contrary, claim that we saved what of Columbia remains uuconsumed. And, without hesitation, I charge General Wade Hampton...silly ' Roman stoicism,' but from folly and want of sense, in filling it with lint, cotton, and tinder. Our officers and men on duty worked well to extinguish... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Presidents - 1865 - 912 pages
...contrary, claim that we saved what of Columbia remains unconsumed. And, without hesitation, I charge Gen. Wade Hampton with having burned his own city of Columbia,...silly "Roman stoicism," but from folly and want of sense, in filling it with lint, cotton, and tinder. Our officers and men on duty worked well to extinguish... | |
 | George Ward Nichols - History - 1865 - 414 pages
...claim that we saved what of Columbia remains unconsumcd. And, without hesitation, I charge General Wnde Hampton with having burned his own city of Columbia,...silly "Roman stoicism," but from folly and want of sense, in filling it with lint, cotton, and tinder. Our officers and men on duty worked well to extinguish... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 878 pages
...contrary, claim that we saved what of Columbia remains uneonBumed. And, without hesitation,, I charge Gen. Wade Hampton, with having burned his own city of Columbia,...malicious intent, or as the manifestation of a silly u Roman stoicism," but from folly and want of sense, in filling it with lint, cotton-, and tinder.... | |
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