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BURNING 0 33e?scribc-?cl by Cap lair in his I Lis tory of I A few days ago The State published a suggestion from Mr McDonald I'm man to the touchers of Columbia that tin v road to their pupils Capt. I'l l, ert s story of the burning of < ' ilumhi In order that the suggestion may I? followed and on account tin m<??t important event id tYiluinbh's hi toiy, the State pro.-i m- tl< lory a* it is found in ChapK i S\.\\ > f the * History of Kershau '.- Hi igadc When Sheinun phi his mighty ma chine of war in motion Ivershaw's brigade was hurried back to Charles ton a-i l up to George's Station, then in lue Uliiige oh LHC religio. i ing parties were out in every direc tion, destroying bridges and railroads, and as the Southern army had no pon toon corps nor any methods of cross ing the deep,sluggish streams in their rear hut by bridge-;, it can be leeii that the cutting of one bridge alone might be fatal to the army. It was discovered early in the march that Sherman did not intend to turn to the right or to the left, but to continue on a direct line, with Columbia as the centre of operations. Wo were re moved from the K dis to hack to Charles ton, and up the Northwestern rail road to St. Stephen's, on the Saulee. It was i'. ared that a raiding party from Georgetown would come up the Santeo and cut the bridge, thereby isolating tho army llardee had in Charleston and vicinity. Slowly I Sherman "dragged Ins weary length along." On the 115th of February the j eorps of (Jen. Blair reached Kingville and drove our pickets away from the , bridge over the Congarec. On the 15th of February the ail vanco column of the Twentieth corps came in sight of Columbia. All the bridges leading thereto were burned : and the Southern troops withdrawn j to the eastern side, (''rank Blair s corps left the road leading to Colum bia at Hopkins, and kept a direct line for Camdcn. Another corps, the Fif teenth, crossed the Broad at Colum bia, while tiie Fourteenth and Twen tieth were to cross at I'rcshley's and Alston. Orders had been given to j evacuate Charleston, aud all the troops j under Gen. McLaws, at Four Hole Swamp, and along the coast, were to rendezvous at St. Stephen's, on the Santce, and either make a junction with the western army at Chester, S. CV, or if not possible, to continue to Chesterfield or Chcraw. The plan of the campaign was now to concentrate all the forces of Hood's Stale troops and Hardcc's at some point in upper South Carolina or in North Carolina, and make one more desperate stand, and by united action crush and over throw Sherman's army, thereby re lieving Lee. On tho morning of February thc 16th the enemy, without any warning whatever, began shelling the sity of Columbia, filled with women and chil dren. Now it must bo remembered that this was not for the purpose of crossing the river, for one of Sher man's corps had already crossed be low the city and two others above. One shell passed through the hotel in which Gen. Bcaureg?.rd was at the time, others struck the State House, while many fell throughout tho city. Gen. Hampton withdrew his small force of cavalry early on the morning of tho 17th. and the mayor of the city met an officer of the Federal army un der a flagof truce and tendered him the surrender of the city, and claimed protection for its inhabitants. This was promised. All during the day thousands of the enemy poured into the city, Gen. Sherman entering about midday. Gens. Davis' and Williams' corps crossed the Saluda and continued up on the western bank of Broad river, one crossing 10 the other 25 miles above Columbia. Tho people of Co lumbia had hopes of a peaceful occu pation of the city, but during the day and along towards nightfall, tho threatening attitude of the soldiers, their ominous words, threats of von geanco, were too portentous for the people to misunderstand or to ex pect mercy. These signs, threats aud mutteriugs wcro but the prelude to lhat which was to follow. FIRE ALARM. About 9 o'clock the alarm of lire was given and tho dread sound of the fire bells, mingled with tho hum and roar of ton thousand voices and the tread of as many troops hurrying to and fro on their cursed mission, oould be heard by tho now thoroughly frighten ed populace. Tho people, with blanch ed countenances, set features, looked in mute silence into the faces of each other. All knew and felt, but dared not even to themselves ?.o whisper, the unmistakable truth. Now another alarm, another fire boll mioglcs its .sound with tho general chorus of dis F COLUMBIA t XX Augustus "Dickert Corsli?iw's Brigade. ifonl, shouts of the soldiery, the frightened cries of the people?yells ni I lie drunken troops all a seething, maddening turbulenee in the crowded treets. A lurid .-hue shoots up above the housetops, then the crack ling and roaring of the dread elements told but loo plainly that the beautiful city was soon to be wrapped iu dames. The sack and pillage bad .begun! TDK I.OO'I of Til K VA NK K I s Few men being in the city, the wo men, with iare heroism, sought to save some little necessity of life, only to see it struck to the floor or .-Hatch ed from tin ir hands and scattered in the streets. Here would be alone woman hugging an infant to her breast, with a few strips el' clothing hanging on her arm; helpless orphans lugging an old trunk or ehest, now containing all they could call their own?these would be snatched away, broken open, contents rilled by the drunken sol diers, or if not valuable, trampled un der foot. Soldiers, with axes and hammers, rushed from house to bouse, breaking ?n doors smashing trunks, boxes, bu reaus und robbing them of all that was valuable, then h aving the house iu Haines. Helpless women, screaming children, babes in the arias, invalids j iu beds, jolted and jostled against the surging mob ? none to help, none to advise?these defenceless sufferers rushed aimlessly about, their sole purpo.-e being to avoid the Haines aud seek a place of safety. The tires originated principally in the Southern section of the eitv, and as the lire aie its way up, the howling throng followed, driving the innocent and helpless ahead. As the night wore on, the drunken soldiers, first made intoxicated by the wine in private collars or the liquors in government buildings, now became beastly drunk in their glee at the sight of the des' notion they had wrought. The women and children followed the dark background of that part of the city not yet in Haines. The Federal officers, instead of offering assistance or a helping hand to the ruined aud distressed people, added insult to in jury by joining with the private sol diers in the plundering of the city, insulting the women and adding fuel to the flame. AU night long did the flames rage, leap, and lick the clouds as uuo block of buildings after another fell?food for the devouring elements. This drunken orgie was kept up till their craven hearts were fully satisflcd. A few squares in tho northeastern part of the city wcro left, also several churches, and into these the women and children were hauled and packed, and bad to remain for days and some for weeks, almost on the verge of star vation. T' Federal commander, through the boundless dictates of his sympathetic heart, after destroying all that fire and rapine could rcaob, left the starving thousands a few rations each of the plunder bo bad robbed of the planters in the country. DESTITUTION. No vehicles or borBCs were left in the city's limits?tho bridges burned that led across the river to the west. To the cast, Blair1 s Corps was laying waste everything in its pathway, wbilo above and below the city, for a distance of 50 miles, Sherman bad swept tho country as bare as if a blight hud fallen upon it. How the people of Columbia subsisted during the time they were penned in tho city churches and the few buildings left, will ever remain a mystery, and to none so much as tho sufferers them selves. drains of corn were eagerly picked I up in the streets as they dropped from the wagons, and the women and chil dren of the lower class and the ne groes flocked to the deserted camps to gather up the crumbs left by the sol dieru or the grains trampled under foot of the horses. Each bouse iu a stretch of 50 miles was entered uud iusults and indigni ties offered the defenceless women which would have shamed the savage ! Turk. Ladies were forced to disclose, at tho point of the pistol or the sabre, the hiding place of their little valua bles. Some were forced to cook meals aud wait upon tho hell hounds, while they regaled themselves upon tho choice viands or medicinal wines of the planters' wives. But bo it known to their immortal honor, that it was only on the most rare occasions that the proud dames of ino South could, either by threat or brutal treatment, be forced to yield to their insolent de mands. With tho orders from tho soldiers to "prepare a meal" or "dis close the wbereabous of thoir money or valuables," came the threat, "Wo will burn your bouse if you do not." But almost invariably came tho quick response, "Burn it, burn it, you cow I ardly wretches, and Kill inc, if you j wish, and all of us, but I will never soil my hands by waiting ipon'a cow ardly Yankee, nor fell you the place of concealment?hnd it if you can." The soldiers would question the ne groes to tind if there were any watches, I Silver plate, or money belonging to the household; if so, they would, by a system of inquisition, attempt to force tiie women to give it up, but in vain. A Hit AVE WOMAN. A woman, Mrs. Miller, the wife of ' a neighbor of mine, had her husband's gold watch in her bosom, and refused to give it up when demanded, even when .i cocked pistol was at her head. The vandal Struck her a stunning blow with the butt end of the pistol ?all in vain. The brave heroine held to the heirloom, aud stoutly resisted all entreaties and threats. Two old people living near mc, brother and maiden sister, named Lo ner, both past three score, were asked to give their money. They had none. But one of the ruffians threw a fire un der the bed, saying: "I will put it out if you will tell me where you keep your money; you have it. for I've been so informed." "Let it burn," answered the old wo man. "Do you think to frighten or intimidate me by burning my house that I will tell what I choose to con ceal'.'' Do you think I care so much for my house and its'belongings? No, no; you mistake the women of the South. You will never conquer her people by making war upon defence less women. Let the house go up in Humes, and my ashes mingle with its ashes, but I will remain true to my self, my country and my (?od." Soon all that was left of the once happy Lome was a heap of ashes. Will (?od, in His wisdom, ever have cause to again create such women as those of the Southland? Or were there ever conditions in the world's history that required the presence of such noble martyrdom as was display ed by the women of the South during the Civil War? But a Nemesis in this case, as in many others, was lurking near. Bands of Confederates and scouts had scat tered themselves on the flanks and rear of the enemy; old men were lying in wait in many thickets and out of the way places, ready to pounce upon the unsuspecting freebooters and give to them their just deserts. Was it any wonder that so many hundreds and thousands of these Goths failed to answer to Sherman's last roll call? Before the sun was many hours older, after the burning of the Loner home- j stead, the dreaded "bushwhackers" were on the trail of the vandals. For years afterwards people, from curiosity, came to look at a heap of bones in a thicket near, bleached by winter's rain and summer's sun, while some of the older men, pointing to the ghostly relics, would say, "Those arc the remains of Sherman's house burners." And such were the scenes from the Saltkhatchie to the Cape Fear. Who were to blame? Sherman now directs his march to wards Winnsboro and Chester, still in the four great parois, burning and plundering as thoy go. It seems that in their march through Georgia they were only whetting their appetites for a full gorge of vandalism in South Carolina. After their carnival of ruin in Columbia, tho Federals, liko tbe j tiger, which, with tho taste of blood, grov s more ravenous, became moro destruotivo tho more destruotion they saw. Great clouds of black smoke roso up over the whole country and darkened the sky overhead, whilo at night the heavens were lit un by tho glaro of the burning buildings. The railroad tracks wore torn up and bridges burned, the iron being laid across heaps of burning ties, then, when at red heat, were wrapped around trees and telegraph posts?those last through pure wantonness, as no army was in their rear that could ever uso them again. Rheumatism?Catarrh in the Blood. Trial Treatment Free.?It is the deep seated obstinate cases of oatarrh and rheumatism, tho kind that havo refused to heal under ordinary treat ment that B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm) cures. It matters not what other treatment, doctors, sprays, lini ments, medicated air, blood purifiers, have failed to do, B. B. B. always promptly roaches the real cause and roots out and drains from the bones, joints, mucous membrane and cntiro system the specific poison in the blood that causes Rheumatism or Catarrh. , B. B. 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After the burning of Columbia by Sherman's army iu February. 1805, the march to the north was commen ced and the destruction of the Char lotte and Columbia railroad, now the C, C. and A. division of the Southern, was pushed with vigor. The army struck camp six miles above Columbia, near Lightwood Knot springs, in the vicinity of where the 100 miles siding is now located. The army remained in camp a couple of days, or until the road was torn up from this city to the camp. After this work of destruc tion was completed the army took up their march to north. The mode of operation was to tear up the track, build fires with the eross ties and stringers, lay the iron rails across the lire until the rails become rcdhot aud then twist them in all man ner of shapes with tools gotten up for the purpose. Another method was to beat the rails in the middle and bend them around trees and telegraph pules, thus rendering them useless as they thought, but not so, as will be shown later. It must be remembered that there avcre no steel rails in use aj, that time; on the Charlotte and Co lumbia railroad was what was known as ''chub," or flange rails; a flat bar of iron with holes in the flange for the purpose of fastening the rail to the strtngcr. The stringer was held in place by notches cut in the tie, a largo tie, called again tie or main tie by some. Between each ' gain" tie there was ger rested. The switch was of the construction of most of the railroads in this section of the country at that time. The process of tearing up the road was continued with the advance of the army to a point a few miles south of Chester. At this point the army left the road and marched across the coun try towards the North Carolina line, thus leaving the road intact between Chester to Charlotte. The surrender came on and the officers found them selves with no road from Blackslock, some f)0 miles north of the city. After things bad settled down the work of rebuilding the road was commenced. There were no rails to be bought, so the question of straightening out the bent and twisted rails was taken up and it was decided to undertake the job. Brick furnaces were built, some thing like an old Dutch oven, the rails being laid in the furnaces and heated red hot, then taken out and hammer outs traigbt. Those which were twist cdn would be untwisted by means of tools devised for tho work, then laid on a fiat slab of iron and hammered out straight. In this way the old rails were brought into use once more, and continued in use for some years afterward, until the more modern rails were brought into use. While a squad of men were tearing up the road and twisting tho rails an old section master was looking on. The offioer in charge of the men re marked to tho section man: :(Say, old man, you are out of a job; you will never be able to work these rails again." The section master replied "I'll see about it after you are gone. I will then go to work and straighten out those rails and be ready for trains to run over them in a very short time." For this speech of tho sec tion man the officers came near put ting him under arrest, but did not, and the section man lived to make good bis assertion. In theso times Mr. William John son was president of the road and Mr James Anderson superintendent While the work of rebuilding the road from Columbia to Blr.okstcok was under way the road north of Black stock was being operated. A small shop was built at Chester and such tools and material as could bo scrap ed up from the burned shops in this oity were transported to Chester by dirt road and used in the shops at that place. Mr. Theodore D. Kline was placed in obarge of thio shop and remained there until tbo shops were rebuilt in this city. Mr. Kline is at the present tim? general superinten dent of the Central railroad of Georgia. ? The State. 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Use DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve for piles, sores and skin diseases. There are counterfeits. Evans Phar maoy. Anniversaries. France acknowledged the indepen dence of the United States February 6, 1778. The realization and appreciation of the brave struggle of the American colonists for independence is in no way diminished by the knowledge that it was the help of France that really brought that strugglo to its early and happy close. Perhaps the most important events of the Revolution were the defeat of Bur goyne, in a campaign planned by Washington and executed by Gates, aud the surrender of the British Army under Cornwallis at Yorktown. The first of these American victo ries is due to the Americans them selves, and especially to the genius of Washington. It was this successful campainu that caused France to feel satisfied that bIic would not be assist ing a falling effort if she aided America. The second epoch-making success of American arms, that of Yorktown, was largely due to the aid of France. This assistance was practical aud theoretical. The mere recognition of tie independence of the revolting colonies had tiemendous moral effect in Europe, but the expenditure of treasure and the co-operation of meu and navy did more. The defeat of Burgoyne astonished and enraged King George aud his Ministers, but America had many friends in England, and they clamor ed for peace, and peace with honor to the colonists on some basis of com promise. Finally, Lord North's bill was presented to Parliament, and that bill was meant for conciliation. It involved a direct surrender of the whole ground of the war, but it indi cated no change of opinion on the part of the King. This action aroused France to en ergy. Louis XVI was opposed to treating with the United States, but tho French Ministers knew that a prompt recognition on the part of France of the Republic's independence would neutralize the British measures, and prevent a reconciliation. France was willing that America aud England should weaken each other by contest, but she was resolved that Great Bri tain should not recover her colonies. France did not dislike America less, but Knglnnd more. Burgoyue's de feat had proved what Americaus could do, and France cuucludcd to form an alliance with the new Power. On February G, 1778, u treaty was executed by the Count do Vergenues, on the one part, and Franklin, Deane and Arthur Lee 'on the other. The King announces his acknowledgment of the independence of America, and agreed to assist in maintaining it. The United States agreed to support France in case Great Britain should declare war against her. So it was that one, of the important transactions of our early history was accomplished. 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