THE BURNING OF COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA
A REVIEW OF NORTHERN ASSERTIONS AND SOUTHERN FACTS
BY DR. D. H. TREZEVANT
FINE CONDITION
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY SOUTH CAROLINA POWER PRESS, COLUMBIA, IN 1866, THIS IS A NEW REPRINT COPY
Excerpt: Much discussion has been evoked on the question as to who is responsible for the burning of Columbia, and the outrages connected with that event. In South Carolina, the author of the crime is known to be Gen. William T. Sherman; but among communities outside of the State, who have not been made familiar with the facts, ignorance on the subject naturally enough prevails. At the North especially, where the press has chosen to circulate only the one-sided statements of its contributors, the public effect to believe that Columbia was destroyed by the Confederate authorities; and books have been written, in which falsehoods are gravely promulgated to establish this theory. The object of the present preview is to put all doubts on the subject at rest forever.
The writer of the following pages is one of the most highly respected citizens of South Carolina, and has been a resident of Columbia for more than fifty years. He was present during the most trying scenes of the conflagration, a personal witness of many of the outrages narrated, and as the reader will discover, is in every way competent to handle his subject with a clearness and force which its importance demands.
THIS BOOK IS IN FINE CONDITION
This wonderful, paperback booklet is in clean, tight condition with no shortcomings. It is a reprint of the original 1866, first edition booklet. It is contains a Foreword, Preface, the text of the book and an Appendix. An excellent, new copy.
THE BURNING OF COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA
A REVIEW OF NORTHERN ASSERTIONS AND SOUTHERN FACTS BY DR. D. H. TREZEVANT
FINE CONDITION ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY SOUTH CAROLINA POWER PRESS, COLUMBIA, IN 1866, THIS IS A NEW REPRINT COPY
Excerpt: Much discussion has been evoked on the question as to who is responsible for the burning of Columbia, and the outrages connected with that event. In South Carolina, the author of the crime is known to be Gen. William T. Sherman; but among communities outside of the State, who have not been made familiar with the facts, ignorance on the subject naturally enough prevails. At the North especially, where the press has chosen to circulate only the one-sided statements of its contributors, the public effect to believe that Columbia was destroyed by the Confederate authorities; and books have been written, in which falsehoods are gravely promulgated to establish this theory. The object of the present preview is to put all doubts on the subject at rest forever.
The writer of the following pages is one of the most highly respected citizens of South Carolina, and has been a resident of Columbia for more than fifty years. He was present during the most trying scenes of the conflagration, a personal witness of many of the outrages narrated, and as the reader will discover, is in every way competent to handle his subject with a clearness and force which its importance demands.
THIS BOOK IS IN FINE CONDITION
This wonderful, paperback booklet is in clean, tight condition with no shortcomings. It is a reprint of the original 1866, first edition booklet. It is contains a Foreword, Preface, the text of the book and an Appendix. An excellent, new copy.
