The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-27

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Should you capture cha rfcsi.3rr, Il nope
4 that, by some accident, t!... place may pc
destroyed, and il 4 little gait s1oIid tee
{ thrown UPON its site, il may prevent the
future growth OF notification .snd sGces-
j sion. =
i SALT UNNECESSARY.
/ To this suggestion from this high q
source to commit murder. arson t.ll,d rob
berry. ard pretend 1t was ny accident,
Sherman replied on December "a, 1864. as
follows:
TT will bear in mind y5ur HIT IS To
/, Charleston, and do not think That SSH
/ VIII be necessary. When move the Eff
j teenth Corps will be on tie right e. tire
5rights5wing. and their position will nat
| suraily bring them into Charleston first.
!, and If you have watched the history NJ
#tnat corps You will have remarked tina.
they generally to their work pretty
| we'll: The truth is, the whole array rs
burning with an insatiabls desire to
/ wreak vengeance upon South Carolina. i
! almost tre:nbe for her fate, but tael that
| she deserves all that seems in store for
I her. LOOK upon Columbia us :i'Iite us
{ bad as. Charleston. AMI doubt if we
, shall spare the public buildings there rs
! we did at aIilledgeyille.'
i 1.-TWO Shernan's Mem, pages 2222 22,-.S,.
| We say proof of his ordering Tor per
/ hitting, which is just rs bad the de-
| struction OF Columbia is. overwhelming.
/ (See repo,t of Chancellor CARROLL, chair
! man of 4 committee appointed TO investi-
/ gate the facts about this General
| Bradley T. Johnston's Life OF Johnston
! and Davis from which several OF si,ese
/ extracts are taken) Our people owe Con-
| eral Johnston debt Of gratitude for
| this and his other contributions 20 Con-
! federate history. And Sherman lntd he
/ effro1tery to write in his memoirs mat
| in his official report Of this condasration
| he ..distiuctly charged it 20 General
! Wade Hampton, and confess I dill 50
| pointedly to shake the faith Of his peo-
J pie in h:l.." (See 2 Sherm;tn's Memoirs.
page 2S7)
The man who confessed to the world
! that he made this false charge with srch
! &; motive needs no characterization ct
| the hands of this committee.
! General Sherman set cut to make
| Georgia how'll and preferred. as he said,
! te march through that State smashing
J things. to the sea-. tie Wrote to Grant
| after his march through South Carolina,
| saying:
THE people OF South Carolina, Instead
/ of feeding Lees army. will now call on
I! Lee to feed them e Memoirs. page ess>.
| SO complete had been his destruction in
| that State He also says:
! Having utterly ruined Columbia. the
| right wing began its march northward, "
| etc. G. Memoirs, Page 2SS)
| On the 9th of February. 1863. only q
/ few Days after the burning OF Columbia,
| General Hampton wrote TO General Sher-
man, charging him with being responsible
! for it's destruction. and other outrases,
/; in which he said, among other things:
| you permitted. il you have not order
| ed the commission of these offences
| against humanity and the rules Of war.
/ You fired into the city of Columbia with
! ont q After its
render by the Mayor. who demanded pro-
! lection to private property, you laid the
| whole city in ashes, leaving amid It's
| ruins thousands of old men and helpless
| women and children who are likely to
| perish of starvation and exposure Your
| line Of march can be traced by the lurio,
| light of burning houses, and in more than
! enc household there is an agony far more
| bitter than death.
The Indian scalped his victim. re-
| CARELESS of age or sex, but with all his
! barbarity he always respected the persons
| OF his female captives. Your soldiers.
! more savage than the Indians, insult
| those whose natural protectors are alb
! sent
! g Great Civil War. COLI
! .SEERIDAN'S ORDERS AND CONDUCT.
| But while no one will dispute the fact
! that Sherman has a clear title to the
| distinction we have accorded him in this
| iepcIl, ct, Lie people
I! of the South, he had other willing and
t efficient aids in his work OF devastation,
| destruction and vandalism; and we must
| now take up. for a time, the work of his
! 'close second" General Philip II. Sheri-
] dan. This officer is reputed to have said
/ that the true principles for conducting
| war are:
First deal as hard blows to the enc
| my's soldiers as possible, and then cause
| SO much suffering to the Inhabitants or
| the country that they will long for peace
F, and press their government to make it,
| Nothing he says. should be left to the
| people but eyes to lament the war,
! He certainly acted on the last of these
f! principles in his dealings with the pso-
| pie of the beautiful VALLEY of Virginia.
| which, by his vandalism. was converted
| from one of the most fertile and beauti-
J full portions of our land into a veritable
! valley of the shadow OF Death He act
Uaily boosted that he had so desoated it.
! that ga crow flying over would have to
! carry his own rations.'
In Sheridan's letter to Grant dated
! Woodstock, October I, 1864, he says of his
! work:
in moving back to this point. the
whole country. from the Blue Ridge to
| the North mountain. has been made I'M
| tenable for the Rebel Army.
| i have destroyed over 1000 barns fill
| ed with wheat and hay and farming i'm
| plements; over 70 mills filed with flour
J and wheat: have driven in front of the
| army over 1900 head of stock. and lave
| killed and issued to the troops not less
! than 5000 sheep. This destruction en-
! braces the Lural Valley and Little Fort
! Valley as well as the main valley.
"a large number of horses have been
obtained. Z. proper estimate of which
| cannot now make.
Lieutenant John r. AIeigs, my engi-
| neer officer. was murdered beyond EIatTf-
| sonburg. near Dayton. For this atrocious
| act all the houses within an area of five
| miles We're burned
1t is not generally known. we believe.
| that this policy of devastation on the part
| of Sheridan was directly inspired and
| ordered by General Grant, who in his
memoirs writes with great satisfaction
and levity Of the outrases committed by
| Sherman. before referred to. and which
| he. Of course, understood would be COM
mitted by the terms of SierInans tclc-
| gram to him. and which he, at the least,
| acquiesced in.
| GRANTS INHUMAN ORDER
| On the 9TH OF August. 1864. he (Grant)
| wrote to General David Hunter. who pre-
(. coded Sheridan in command of the Valley,
| as follows. viz:
Pushing uo the Shenandoah Valley