Original sentence: According to Marion Lucas, author of Sherman and the Burning of Columbia, "the destruction of Columbia was not the result of a single act or events of a single day.In 2015, The State identified "5 myths about the Burning of Columbia":
Edited sentence: According to James Loewen, author of Lies Across America.According to this view, "The cradle of the rebellion, South Carolina was held in special contempt by Sherman and his men, who blamed the state for the Civil War and now felt it their right and duty to mete out a harsh punishment—even harsher than the one they delivered in Georgia, if that was possible.Columbia's leading newspaper, The State, recently (2015) identified "5 myths about the Burning of Columbia":.However, according to Marion Lucas, author of Sherman and the Burning of Columbia, published by the University of South Carolina Press, "the destruction of Columbia was not the result of a single act or events of a single day.Southern historiography immediately and loudly proclaimed the burning a needless act showing the cruelty and savagery of the Northern invaders, intent on punishing the city where secession started.The turning of the burning into a clearcut tale of Union wickedness, and nothing more, is the work of "neo-Confederates".What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong,  "Sherman was much less reviled in the nineteenth century than in the twentieth", because "white Southerners knew" that Sherman and his men were not responsible for everything attributed to them