The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-06-13
who Burned Columbia.

] ..-t"G,r OF rpl OFFICER WHOSE UNION sal-
r,ry crAsDED THE CITY.
r-.u.r,l '-..,,... \. Stors. who commanded
.. lhli Krl.adc. First Division, Of the
..,.,..h trgy Corps. of General Sherman's
,.t Uhrrh @utrdcd the city on the night
..,. nmu.d. writes IN interesting letter to
10. rr5.o irrlu"s Giving a new solution
49,, couundrun. Who fired Columbia
=. ..,- the army va, animated by Il feeling
..,ts.,, hatred toward South Carolina, and
4. =. nuimr>itv increased as they ap-
.. .,i ,JIHmhia dis recollection is that
..... j. Il t.lr town not Il house was left
-.1vlw- unlr>s occupied by negroes; and
&c.,, II. tense clouds Of smoke Il few miles
... = our right and left--plainlv defining
90. u&.h"l he columns advancing in paral-
mt scemed that the same destruc-
~" Vs. following IN the wake Of those
..'nn-,' Ntler describing ibc entrance of
- ,rn' mt" the city, General Stone says:
I :, :" 'Ilr time u" fires had occurred in
r~It Of the city save those Ut public
IS! in-~ and GuHrteriliastcrS' stores, tred
.r'a' enemy the day before we entered, !
'suA, hut which tire had not extended, and
ID l"} Nt.nd. to any other rart Of the city.
IT, -ii'..t- in some places contained bales of
H.u. Wa,.l had been cut open. and these
hi III" twice 81 three fines during the
TAT lrse tircs bad been promptly put
- .urne oi the tremen OF the city, aided
- t;t3il "i soldiers under charge of an
'.'~, h this time ] realized how much
-waii my command Of 200 men was to
" ,"r'y Guard IA city OF 10000 Inhabitants
rmn~t beyond conception in such stores
N,roy"l.d. In addition to their own
..t, toan ordinarily found anywhere
r lu'pd and Charleston had sent for safe
s.'. IN. all their surplus.
l.it. -"nted TO General Woods. COM
-:ntrn@ the division. bow Inadequate my
rEud WAS TO the task, particularly as
q. "a, the capital Of South Carolina. And
,., i. expressed himself It's of NY Opt
." ~ couid do nothing further than refer
%. r'ti,merai Logan. commanding theeorpS.
J." ~ oppressed himself even more strongly
".n Woods had done, that my command
%, ulp -!Dalliv The provost duty OF Column
... tut laid Towards orders were one bri-
-,' must guard the city. and he could not
Ian, them.
lr"w had n;iruatiun that the Union officers
.''',>'dh, Ms trumthe city prisons had formed
'' I'lN, 10 which had been added many
'''u'"r- from our soldiers and the negroes,
.9" thc object of which society was to bum
'"uluhH. Colonel ID. j. Palmer, command
- my regiment, the Scyenly-titth Iowa, and
F.. "h"lu ] had intrtstcd the charge Of the
b"-' dan-croil. part OF the city-,iz., that on
-. riN"r and in Cotton Town"-cOnfirmed
by ol'niou that there was IA plot to burn the
= ~ telling me that several fires had start
an MS district: that he had succeeded in put
- them out 50 far. but could not hold out
#...h longer; and that. in his opinion,
-. next one would ire the city.
i'' Mind after >unset had incl eased in vio-
.'n,c, and about O'Clock was blowing al
A.'>l hurricane from Colonel Palmer's dis
Inst night toward the heart of the city. All
Il, n'r1ii"u " twenty flames, FROM rs many
""'I'Ef i'''c:> along the river, shot UP, and
IN INMATES The fate of-Columbia was set
''d. Mott oi the officers and many Of the
"'H worked like heroes all night in saving
'!"iy aud HE. General Sherman set the
't1iu", lnd often during the night | no.
o.! hnn - hnrd at work'is any private sol
~ rrcnmn. BY the next morning it
discovered thc guard had been too small,
t dih"u-li square nile OF the heart OF
'ih tad been eaten out. the mcn's apps
% Tor rcI.n.,c WAS not satiated.