Sherman And The Burning Of Columbia

Author : Marion B. Lucas
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781643362465

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Sherman and the Burning of Columbia by Marion B. Lucas Pdf

An investigation into who burned South Carolina's capital in 1865 Who burned South Carolina's capital city on February 17, 1865? Even before the embers had finished smoldering, Confederates and Federals accused each other of starting the blaze, igniting a controversy that has raged for more than a century. Marion B. Lucas sifts through official reports, newspapers, and eyewitness accounts, and the evidence he amasses debunks many of the myths surrounding the tragedy. Rather than writing a melodrama with clear heroes and villains, Lucas tells a more complex and more human story that details the fear, confusion, and disorder that accompanied the end of a brutal war. Lucas traces the damage not to a single blaze but to a series of fires—preceded by an equally unfortunate series of military and civilian blunders—that included the burning of cotton bales by fleeing Confederate soldiers. This edition includes a new foreword by Anne Sarah Rubin, professor of history at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and the author of Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman's March and America.

Author : Marion B Lucas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1643362453

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Sherman and the Burning of Columbia by Marion B Lucas Pdf

This edition includes a new foreword by Anne Sarah Rubin, professor of history at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and the author of Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman's March and America.

Author : Daniel Heyward Trezevant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Columbia (S.C.)
ISBN : UOMDLP:aby3088:0001.001

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The Burning of Columbia, S.C. by Daniel Heyward Trezevant Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Columbia (S.C.)
ISBN : HARVARD:32044019053917

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Who Burnt Columbia? by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles Royster
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307760593

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The Destructive War by Charles Royster Pdf

From the moment the Civil War began, partisans on both sides were calling not just for victory but for extermination. And both sides found leaders who would oblige. In this vivid and fearfully persuasive book, Charles Royster looks at William Tecumseh Sherman and Stonewall Jackson, the men who came to embody the apocalyptic passions of North and South, and re-creates their characters, their strategies, and the feelings they inspired in their countrymen. At once an incisive dual biography, hypnotically engrossing military history, and a cautionary examination of the American penchant for patriotic bloodshed, The Destructive War is a work of enormous power.

Author : Anne S. Rubin
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469617770

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Through the Heart of Dixie by Anne S. Rubin Pdf

Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman's March and American Memory

Author : William Tecumseh Sherman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Generals
ISBN : OXFORD:N10619689

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Memoirs of General William T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman Pdf

Author : T. Neill Anderson
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781580895163

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Horrors of History: Ocean of Fire by T. Neill Anderson Pdf

Based on the actual fire that swept through Columbia, South Carolina, after the city surrendered to General Sherman’s Union troops, Ocean of Fire details life in the South at the end of the American Civil War. Supported by thorough research, narrative accounts of actual historical persons as well as fictionalized characters comprise the novel. Follow 17-year-old Emma, her family, and potential Confederate spy, Charles Davis, as a chaotic community tries to survive a blazing firestorm. The second book in the Horrors of History series, Ocean of Fire makes history accessible, questioning who could have started this controversial fire and exploring how the closing weeks of the war affected citizens and slaves alike.

Author : John G. Barrett
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469611129

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Sherman's March Through the Carolinas by John G. Barrett Pdf

In retrospect, General William Tecumseh Sherman considered his march through the Carolinas the greatest of his military feats, greater even than the Georgia campaign. When he set out northward from Savannah with 60,000 veteran soldiers in January 1865, he was more convinced than ever that the bold application of his ideas of total war could speedily end the conflict. John Barrett's story of what happened in the three months that followed is based on printed memoirs and documentary records of those who fought and of the civilians who lived in the path of Sherman's onslaught. The burning of Columbia, the battle of Bentonville, and Joseph E. Johnston's surrender nine days after Appomattox are at the center of the story, but Barrett also focuses on other aspects of the campaign, such as the undisciplined pillaging of the 'bummers,' and on its effects on local populations.

Author : Daniel Heyward Trezevant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Columbia (S.C.)
ISBN : MINN:31951001998899F

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The Burning of Columbia, S.C. by Daniel Heyward Trezevant Pdf

Author : O O 1830-1909 Howard,William T 1820-1891 Sherman
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1019500905

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Who Burnt Columbia? by O O 1830-1909 Howard,William T 1820-1891 Sherman Pdf

This book provides first-hand accounts of the burning of Columbia during the American Civil War. Using official depositions from William Tecumseh Sherman and Gen. O.O. Howard, readers will gain a better understanding of this pivotal event in American history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Brian Holden Reid
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190079147

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The Scourge of War by Brian Holden Reid Pdf

William Tecumseh Sherman, a West Point graduate and veteran of the Seminole War, became one of the best-known generals in the Civil War. His March to the Sea, which resulted in a devastated swath of the South from Atlanta to Savannah, cemented his place in history as the pioneer of total war. In The Scourge of War, preeminent military historian Brian Holden Reid offers a deeply researched life and times account of Sherman. By examining his childhood and education, his business ventures in California, his antebellum leadership of a military college in Louisiana, and numerous career false starts, Holden Reid shows how unlikely his exceptional Civil War career would seem. He also demonstrates how crucial his family was to his professional path, particularly his wife's intervention during the war. He analyzes Sherman's development as a battlefield commander and especially his crucial friendships with Henry W. Halleck and Ulysses S. Grant. In doing so, he details how Sherman overcame both his weaknesses as a leader and severe depression to mature as a military strategist. Central chapters narrate closely Sherman's battlefield career and the gradual lifting of his pessimism that the Union would be defeated. After the war, Sherman became a popular figure in the North and the founder of the school for officers at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, known as the "intellectual center of the army." Holden Reid argues that Sherman was not hostile to the South throughout his life and only in later years gained a reputation as a villain who practiced barbaric destruction, particularly as the neo-Confederate Lost Cause grew and he published one of the first personal accounts of the war. A definitive biography of a preeminent military figure by a renowned military historian, The Scourge of War is a masterful account of Sherman' life that fully recognizes his intellect, strategy, and actions during the Civil War.

Author : Patricia G. Mcneely
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 153083712X

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Sherman's Flame and Blame Campaign Through Georgia and the Carolinas by Patricia G. Mcneely Pdf

General William T. Sherman created a new form of physical, economic and psychological "total warfare" against civilians and private property in Georgia and the Carolinas that he readily admitted would be violent and cruel. In addition to physical and economic assaults, he designed a massive psychological strategy of propaganda and blame that was designed to cripple the Confederacy, to destroy the faith of civilians in their leaders and their government and to kill the will of the people to fight for their cause. Even though Sherman openly admitted most of his strategy and his efforts to "mystify the enemy," those elements have been all but overlooked through the years. However, they were an integral part of the campaign that would help end the Civil War in 1865.

Author : Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes Jr.
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807862162

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Bentonville by Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes Jr. Pdf

The battle of Bentonville, the only major Civil War battle fought in North Carolina, was the Confederacy's last attempt to stop the devastating march of William Tecumseh Sherman's army north through the Carolinas. Despite their numerical disadvantage, General Joseph E. Johnston's Confederate forces successfully ambushed one wing of Sherman's army on March 19, 1865 but were soon repulsed. For the Confederates, it was a heroic but futile effort to delay the inevitable: within a month, both Richmond and Raleigh had fallen, and Lee had surrendered.

Author : William Gilmore Simms
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781643361284

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A City Laid Waste by William Gilmore Simms Pdf

“A graphic account of the horrors, the brutality and sometimes wanton destruction of warfare, particularly of civil war.” —Charleston (SC) Post and Courier In the first reissue of these documents since 1865, A City Laid Waste captures in riveting detail the destruction of South Carolina’s capital city. William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870), a native South Carolinian and one of the nation’s foremost men of letters, was in Columbia and witnessed firsthand the city’s capture and destruction. A renowned novelist and poet, who was also an experienced journalist and historian, Simms deftly recorded the events of February 1865 in a series of eyewitness accounts published in the first ten issues of the Columbia Phoenix and reprinted here. His record of burned buildings constitutes the most authoritative information available on the extent of the damage. Simms historian David Aiken provides a historical and literary context for Simms’s reportage. In his introduction Aiken clarifies the significance of Simms’s articles and draws attention to factors most important for understanding the occupation’s impact on the city of Columbia. “A shrewd viewer of the war scene in Columbia, famed Southern writer William Gilmore Simms published stinging, courageous exposés of the doings of the Northern forces, even when threatened with arrest. The restoration of his candid firsthand accounts of the destruction wrought by Sherman’s forces against the South Carolina capitol and its inhabitants is a great service to all who study and appreciate Southern history and literature.” —James Everett Kibler, author of Our Fathers’ Fields