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A City Laid Waste: The Capture, Sack, and Destruction of the City of Columbia

A City Laid Waste: The Capture, Sack, and Destruction of the City of Columbia

Simms, William Gilmore
Aiken, David

Paperback

Armed ForcesCivil War Period (1850-1877)Regional: South

ISBN10: 1611170036
ISBN13: 9781611170030
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: Jan 1 2011
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
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 by Union forces and its subsequent devastation by fire. 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.

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