Sack and Destruction of the City of Columbia, S.C.: To Which Is Added a List of the Property Destroyed.

by William Gilmore Simms

Book Overview

A dramatic eyewitness account of a city under siege during the Civil WarIn the first reissue of these documents since 1865, A City Laid Waste captures in riveting detail the destruction of South... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1275792464
• ISBN13: 9781275792463
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
• Length: 78 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.4" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

Primary Document Finally Available

This eye-witness account of US troop atrocities on civilians can no longer be hidden. Scholars may have had an excuse for ignoring it, but now that excuse is removed by this easily available, beautifully produced university press edition. The majority of the so-called historians who have attributed the burning of Columbia SC to accident, alcohol, burning cotton, etc., are now shown to be the apologist propagandists for a sanitized American history that they most surely are. In contrast to the eye-witness account, their work now appears laughable. How can we take these "historians" seriously in anything else they do? Truth has a way of getting outside its bottle, and like the genie, it can't be put back. Congratulations to the editor and press for a job well done.