Author: William Gilmore SimmsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Columbia (S.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Sack and Destruction of the City of Columbia, S.C.
Author: William Gilmore SimmsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Columbia (S.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Sack And Destruction Of The City Of Columbia, S.c.
Author: William Gilmore 1806-1870 SimmsPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781020200717
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Written by one of the South's most celebrated authors, this book gives a firsthand account of the fall of Columbia, South Carolina during the American Civil War. Simms details the destruction and looting that occurred as Union troops overtook the city, and includes a list of the property that was destroyed in the process. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Sack and Destruction of the City of Columbia, S. C.
Author: William Gilmore SimmsPublisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781500315047
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Published in 1883, this is an address by former Confederate Lt. Gen. Jubal A. Early to the Association of the Maryland Line on Confederate General "Stonewall" Jackson's campaign against Union General Pope during the War Between the States.
Sack and Destruction of the City of Columbia, S.C.
Author: William Gilmore SimmsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Columbia (S.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Sack and Destruction of the City of Columbia, S.C.
Author: William Gilmore SimmsPublisher: Gale Cengage Learning
ISBN:
Category : Columbia (S.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
A City Laid Waste
Author: William Gilmore SimmsPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1643361287
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
“A graphic account of the horrors, the brutality and sometimes wanton destruction of warfare, particularly of civil war.” —Charleston (SC) Post and Courier In the first reissue of these documents since 1865, A City Laid Waste captures in riveting detail the destruction of South Carolina’s capital city. William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870), a native South Carolinian and one of the nation’s foremost men of letters, was in Columbia and witnessed firsthand the city’s capture and destruction. A renowned novelist and poet, who was also an experienced journalist and historian, Simms deftly recorded the events of February 1865 in a series of eyewitness accounts published in the first ten issues of the Columbia Phoenix and reprinted here. His record of burned buildings constitutes the most authoritative information available on the extent of the damage. Simms historian David Aiken provides a historical and literary context for Simms’s reportage. In his introduction Aiken clarifies the significance of Simms’s articles and draws attention to factors most important for understanding the occupation’s impact on the city of Columbia. “A shrewd viewer of the war scene in Columbia, famed Southern writer William Gilmore Simms published stinging, courageous exposés of the doings of the Northern forces, even when threatened with arrest. The restoration of his candid firsthand accounts of the destruction wrought by Sherman’s forces against the South Carolina capitol and its inhabitants is a great service to all who study and appreciate Southern history and literature.” —James Everett Kibler, author of Our Fathers’ Fields
Sherman and the Burning of Columbia
Author: Marion B. LucasPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1643362461
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
An investigation into who burned South Carolina's capital in 1865 Who burned South Carolina's capital city on February 17, 1865? Even before the embers had finished smoldering, Confederates and Federals accused each other of starting the blaze, igniting a controversy that has raged for more than a century. Marion B. Lucas sifts through official reports, newspapers, and eyewitness accounts, and the evidence he amasses debunks many of the myths surrounding the tragedy. Rather than writing a melodrama with clear heroes and villains, Lucas tells a more complex and more human story that details the fear, confusion, and disorder that accompanied the end of a brutal war. Lucas traces the damage not to a single blaze but to a series of fires—preceded by an equally unfortunate series of military and civilian blunders—that included the burning of cotton bales by fleeing Confederate soldiers. This edition includes a new foreword by Anne Sarah Rubin, professor of history at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and the author of Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman's March and America.
Their Last Full Measure
Author: Joseph WheelanPublisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0306823616
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Dramatic developments unfolded during the first months of 1865 that brought America's bloody Civil War to a swift climax. As the Confederacy crumbled under the Union army's relentless "hammering," Federal armies marched on the Rebels' remaining bastions in Alabama, the Carolinas, and Virginia. General William T. Sherman's battle-hardened army conducted a punitive campaign against the seat of the Rebellion, South Carolina, while General-in-Chief Ulysses S. Grant sought to break the months-long siege at Petersburg, defended by Robert E. Lee's starving Army of Northern Virginia. In Richmond, Confederate President Jefferson Davis struggled to hold together his unraveling nation while simultaneously sanctioning diplomatic overtures to bid for peace. Meanwhile, President Abraham Lincoln took steps to end slavery in the United States forever. Their Last Full Measure relates these thrilling events, which followed one on the heels of another, from the battles ending the Petersburg siege and forcing Lee's surrender at Appomattox to the destruction of South Carolina's capital, the assassination of Lincoln, and the intensive manhunt for his killer. The fast-paced narrative braids the disparate events into a compelling account that includes powerful armies; leaders civil and military, flawed and splendid; and ordinary people, black and white, struggling to survive in the war's wreckage.
Palmetto Profiles
Author: W. Eric EmersonPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1611172861
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Palmetto Profiles documents the lives and accomplishments of the inductees of the South Carolina Hall of Fame during its first forty years. As Governor John C. West predicted in his dedication speech, the Hall of Fame has indeed become a "vital and integral part of the history and culture of South Carolina." Nearly ninety citizens have been inducted since Apollo 16 astronaut Colonel Charles Duke, Jr., became the first honoree in 1973. Each year one contemporary and one deceased individual is recognized by the hall for outstanding contributions to South Carolina's heritage and progress. To date, inductees have included political leaders and reformers, artists, writers, scientists, soldiers, clergy, educators, athletes, and others. U.S. president Andrew Jackson, authors Elizabeth Coker and Pat Conroy, jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie, artists Jasper Johns and Elizabeth O'Neil Verner, Catawba King Hagler, Generals Francis Marion and Thomas Sumter, civil rights leaders Mary McLeod Bethune and Reverend Benjamin E. Mays, U.S. senators J. Strom Thurmond and Fritz Hollings, and Nobel Prize winning physicist Charles H. Townes are just some of the representative South Carolinians memorialized in the Hall of Fame for their lasting legacies in the Palmetto State and beyond. Published on the fortieth anniversary of the opening of the South Carolina Hall of Fame and drawn from biographical entries in The South Carolina Encyclopedia, this guidebook presents concise profiles of the inductees from 1973 to 2013. Palmetto Profiles, like the Hall of Fame itself, serves as a tangible link to South Carolina's rich and complex past to the benefit of residents, visitors, and students alike. The volume also includes illustrations of all inductees and a foreword by Walter Edgar, a 2008 Hall of Fame inductee, author of South Carolina: A History, and editor of The South Carolina Encyclopedia.
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Author: Southern History AssociationPublisher:
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Category : Southern States
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description