Who Burnt Columbia Vol 1

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ISBN 13 : 9781332340712
Total Pages : 126 pages
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Download or read book Who Burnt Columbia?, Vol. 1 written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Who Burnt Columbia?, Vol. 1: Official Depositions of Wm; Tecumseh Sherman, "General of the Army of the United States," and Gen. O. O. Howard, U. S. A., For the Defence; Extracts From Some of the Depositions for the Claimants, Filed in Certain Claims Vs; United States, Pending Before In publishing matter relating to suits still pending, and in the result of which we as Counsel are interested, we deem it advisable, in order that our motives may not be misconstrued, to state fully and frankly the reasons which actuate us, The question, "Who is responsible for the burning of Columbia?" has been, against our will, drawn into and made part of several cases now before the Mixed Commission at Washington. On the part of the United States, possessed, as it is, of great powers and unlimited resources, employing the ablest of Counsel, in all parts of the country, and with an almost inexhaustible treasury, it was a task not difficult to select from among its former immense military force, and place upon the witness stand, only those who did not hear the orders given for the burning of Columbia - those who did not see the pillaging - those who did not assist in the firing of houses - those whose faith in their successful General remained firm. Nor was it less easy, from among the former slaves of the residents of that beautiful city, to find witnesses ready to corroborate the testimony of their Northern friends. On the other hand, the resources, pecuniary and otherwise, at the command of Counsel for individual claimants are but small. The witnesses of the Columbia tragedy of February, 1865, being then in great part "war-refugees," are now scattered ed to the four winds of heaven; and. believing, as they blindly do, that it is a fact incontrovertible that Columbia was burnt by General Sherman, we can scarce paint in sufficiently strong colors, the difficulty in obtaining their evidence: although the decision of the "Commission" will, in all probability, be accepted by history as a correct verdict on the issue. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.