Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-03-29
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THH,nEsoGAT1oS OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
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From the Richmond Sentinel, March ~.
General Sherman has accomplished Hiis
paTPoSe of making South 4CGEOlG10- G.0Gsts.
His march from. Savannah. to- BranchVille,
and. thence to Columbia, Winusboro and
Chersw, was marked, through d t0ife belt Of
country, by ere aud rspiue. Phe beautiful
city of Columbia no longer exists. It Is q
| mass of chRrred ruins-Hercula buried
in ashes. A few struggling buildings re-
msin" here and there to disclose where the
city once stood The State. House was
burned to the ground, the gasworks blown
up, the main street, extending for MORE
than mile, and for the most part closely
built up, has but one small building left.
The Court House, with tts4records, had
| disappeared; the town hall and market,
the banks and four churches are gone. OF
the squares east of the main street some
are entirely destroyed iolhers only in part.
Eighty four blocks in the city were burned,
and Columbia is Palmyra in the DESERT.
All provisions were seized, used or de.
siroyed; the stores were broken open, pill
laged and then burnt. What7th soldiers
could not carry off was gTvFnto the ne
groes. They felt with their bayonets dill
gently in the gardens, andldug up. what
was buried. All the horses and mules
were carried off and the carriages destroyed.
Brutsl, drunken soldiers entered every house
in search Of silver and jewelry, and took
them by violence and insult. Gen. Sher-
man seems emulous of the immortality
which circles, with halo Of infamy, the
names of Attils and !Timour. the Tartar,
and the Russian Haynau, in Poland He
has achieved the distinction Of being classed
among the monsters of the human race.
Some officers were polite and expressed
sympathy; they pretended that the confa-
grafton was accidentaI-shat it went be-
yond the original purposes, and was the act
of their drunken soldiers. The evidence
demonstrates that this is false pretence,
and that the city was deliberately given up
to be sacked. When the work had been
accomplished, few notes of the .bugle
called in the maraudiug bands, and quiet
was restored forthwith.
General Sherman left few starved cats
tie asa present to the citizens. They were
too poor and feeble to follow the army
One of the ladies said to General Francis
Preston Blair, "Is this the way you wsr2
Tithought legitimate war was by army
against army; but you war upon women
and children, and iDf1ict infuite iDiury
and distress upon helpless non. combat
ants" Madam" he replied, 1--WE came
here to produce distress. Your men fight
bravely, and the war would be iutermin-
able, if to be fought in regular campaigns.
We will adopt more sure and speedier
course We will exhaust your country,
consume your substance, destroy your
means of subsistence, shut up your ports,
interrupt your railroads, render transpor-
tation difficult and the supplies to-yourar.
mics impossible. This is mercy 10 you,
for it will shorten the war" The accu
mutation of refugees bad made Columbia q
populous city; with its suburbs il had
about twenty five thousand inhabitants
These have dWindled togs few thousand,
who creep amidst thesrufns to the Office oi
/ the Provost Marshal and get tickets with
/ which they proceed to the provision depot
and get sration-a pound of beefg8nd q
pint of meal. The poor receive this allow
| ance gratis, Such as are able to pay give
1.-TWO dollars for a ration. This-isfa faint
picture Of the present condition Of Gotum-
bia. The usual concomitants of . great
calamity are not wanting. The demorsli'
zatiou of the lower classes is alarming. All
lideas of aGettm and tUuD are lost, ,,Rs YWheI
a ship is abont to be wrecked, or the plague
desolates city, Alas, for the beautifu
capital of the Palmetto State, crushed b,
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