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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 7 1 Browse Search
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing) 6 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 3 1 Browse Search
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2 2 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10 2 0 Browse Search
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac 2 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 2 0 Browse Search
H. Wager Halleck , A. M. , Lieut. of Engineers, U. S. Army ., Elements of Military Art and Science; or, Course of Instruction in Strategy, Fortification, Tactis of Battles &c., Embracing the Duties of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery and Engineers. Adapted to the Use of Volunteers and Militia. 2 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 5. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
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wide-spreading columns of smoke rose wherever the army went, when it is incontrovertibly true that the line of his march could be traced by the burning dwelling houses and by the wail of women and children pitilessly left to die from starvation and exposure in the depth of winter, his plea of not guilty in the case of the city of Columbia can not free him from the reprobation which outraged humanity must attach to an act of cruelty which finds a parallel only in the barbarous excesses of Wallenstein's army in the Thirty Years War, and which, even at that period of the world's civilization, sullied the fame of that otherwise great soldier. In consequence of General Sherman's movements, it was considered advisable to evacuate Charleston (February 17th), that General Hardee's command might become available for service in the field; thus that noble city and its fortresses, which the combined military and naval forces of the United States, during an eighteen months siege, had failed to