Major General William T. Sherman, commanding the compulsory Union Military Division of the Mississippi, enters Columbia, South Carolina.
Postscript: The city was set ablaze that night..
NOTE: There is doubt as to who ordered the fire, whether it was the victorious Major General William T. Sherman, commanding the compulsory Union Military Division of the Mississippi, or the retreating Major General Lafayette McLaws, of the First Corps of the Army of the Confederate States.
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References:
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 302.
Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 186.
Lafayette McLaws – From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafayette_McLaws
American Civil War, 1865
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcivilwar6.htm
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