Identifier: lifedeedsofgener02nort (find matches)
Title: Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea ..
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
Subjects: Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 Generals
Publisher: Philadelphia, National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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our own use, as well as all railroads, depots, andmachinery useful in war to an enemy, but to spare alldwellings, colleges, schools, asylums, and harmlessprivate property. I was the first to cross the pontoon-bridge, and in company with General Howard rodeinto the city. The day was clear, but a perfect tem-pest of wind was raging. The brigade of ColonelStone was already in the city, and was properlyposted. Citizens and soldiers were on the streetsand general good order prevailed. General Wade Hampton, who commanded the Con-federate rear-guard of cavalry, had, in anticipation ofour capture of Columbia, ordered that all cotton,public and private, should be moved Into the streets(and fired, to prevent our making use of It. Baleswere piled everywhere, the rope and bagging cut, andtufts of coti:on were blown about In the wind, lodgedin the trers and against houses, so as to resemble asnow-storm. Some of these piles of cotton were burn-ing, especially one In the very heart of the city near
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CHARLESTON HARBOR AND ITS APPROACHES, SHOWING FORTS SUMTER ANA»WAGNER. JAMES ISLAND. Etc., Etc. 457 45S GENERAL SHEKMAN. the court-house, but the fi.re was partially subdued bythe labor of our soldiers. During the day, the Fit-teenth corps passed through Columbia and out on theCamden road. The Seventeenth did not enter thetown at all, and the left wing and cavalry did notcome within ten miles of the town. Before one single public building had been fired byorder, the smouldering fires set by Hamptons orderwere rekindled by the wind and communicated to theOuiidings around. About dark they began to spread,-nd got beyond the control of the brigade on dutywithin the city. The whole of Woods division wasbrought in, but it was found impossible to check theflames, which by midnight had become unmanageable,and raged until about four a. m., when, the wind sub-siding, they were got under control. The Town Fired by Confederates. I was up nearly all night, and saw Generals How-ard, Logan, Wood, a

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