Letters from Readers- America’s Civil War March 2015

Columbia’s culprit In response to your query on p. 27 of the January 2015 issue (“Who Burned Columbia, S.C.?”), William Sherman provided an answer. “In my official  report of this conflagration in Columbia,” he wrote in his memoirs, “I distinctly charged it to Confederate General Wade Hampton and confess I did  so pointedly to shake …

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