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ANNIVERSAR
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February 17, 1865, Shermc
Columbia- - - Two Eyewiti
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jvas the anniversary of the
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ourning 01 uoiumuid u> ouciumu,
which took place February 17, 1865.
Two well known Columbians, John
F. Williams and F. F. Whilden, both
Sit.
of whom witnessed the burning, have
contributed to the State interesting
accounts of that day as remembered
% by them.
Mr. Williams's Account.
Mr. Williams's account follows:
^"February 17 should be marked in
red in our calendars as a memorial
of Sherman's burning of Columbia in
1865.
"On the 15th there was consider-j
able skirmishing around Cayce and
on the 16th the Confederate troops
zeil UaCK aciuss me inci a 111a uuin^u
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u-v the bridges and Sherman planted a
battery across the river on Mayrant's
drill opposite the penitentiary and
from there he shelled the city all
day. All during the 16th there was
considerable fighting across the river
at the Broad river bridge and both
the Saluda and Broad river bridges
were burned.
On the morning of the 17th Sherman
came across Broad river, just
above the bridge, on his pontoon
boats and commenced coming into the
H city. Dr. Goodwyn, who was mayor
of the city, met the advance guard
!on the river road and surrendered the
city. It was about 2 o'clock when the
main army came in. I was at the corner
of Elmwood evenue and Main
street when they came in. Those who
had come in in the morning had been
plundering all day and when the main
army got in it was a general plunder.
^ "The plundering was kept up until
night and then the work of destruction
commenced from the Keenan
home on north Main street, where
Bouknight's shop now stands, to the
state house, but one building was left
on Main street. It was a small cottage
on the 1900 block and was occupied
by the French consul, who had
come here from Charleston and he
put up the French flag and saved his
j|' house.?
|y. ^ - "From Taylor street to Lady on the
ji* east side of Assembly not a house
was left and on through to Marion
i?? street and on Washington to Bull,
with the exeception of the old high
school building, on Plain street to
l Bull, on Taylor to Bull the house was
? left on the corner of Marion and
Taylor; on Blanding one house to
H' Bull the house now occupied by F. C.
|A' v . Troeger, and on the south side of
Laurel to the house now occupied by
Mrs. Clark Waring, on Richland
street to Marion. Any one who will
go over these streets as I have put
fA them down can form some idea of the
destruction.
"Ebenezer Lutheran, Grace Epist
. -copal, Washington Street Methodist, j
Ladson chapel and the Jewish synagogue
fell victims to the flames.
"On the morning of the 18th I went
down town to see the ruins and it
was a fearful sight?women and children
huddled together around what
little stuff they could get out -of their
jj| ;i homes and no place to go. On As\
^ sembly street, near where the substation
now stands, I saw a woman
and her little children around a few
things they hadgottenSut and among
fViincre <?Vio V>or? couod n ivano and
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one of Sherman's men came riding
Iup and dismounting his horse, deliberately
pulled four or five of the
keys out of the piano and putting
them in his pocket, rode off.
"Many of the people went down in
the parK, but there they followed
them, setting fire to the dry grass.
Plundering continued through Saturday
and Sunday. On Sunday they
hauled ammunition from the state j
arsenal in the lot at the governor's
mansion and threw it into the-Congaree
river just below the bridge, I
and then stuck fire to the buildings i
One of the teams hauling was blown
up on the river banks, one of them
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other was left on the bank. They
never buried him but left him lying
where he died. He was pushed into
the river and that was his grave.
"Sherman said war was hell and he
tried to make it as near so as possible.
He claimed that Columbia was
burned by the Confederates burning
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* cotton in the streets but his statement
was absolutelv false. The Confederates
had left early in the morning
and there was not a fire until
after dark and then in a short while
the burning began. ine oia cuy
clock struck 12 o'clock that night for
the last time.
"I have written this that the younger
generation may know something
of what the older ones had to ensure."
Mr. Whilden Says:
The recollection of the burning of
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m and His A rmy Set Fire to
lesses Tell of Happenings
be Forgotten Day.
i Pninnvhin hv Frank F. Whilden fol
[ lows:
I "On the evening of February 17,
! 1865, the citv of Columbia was filled
| with the blue coats of Sherman's
army: they were coming in aii day.
"It was Friday, in the afternoon,
just after we had taken our dinner.
Hampton calvary, or what was left
of it, passed our door, going out
through Laurel street to the east,
where they met a number of soldiers
of the Union army, and a skirmish
occurred between the two just at the
point where Laurel street turns north,
going toward Camden.
"As this body of men were passing
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j John F. Lanneau, chief of engineers
j on Hampton's staff, rode on his horse
j up to the pavement alongside our
piazza, and saluting the gathered fam!
ily who had assembled to see our
men go out from the city, said to my
grandfather, Fleetwood Lanneau:
"Uncle Fleetwood, come along with
us, do not remain a moment longer,
as the Yankees are coming into the
city, and will take you prisoner, and
| no telling what will come of you.' So
j hailing one of their wagons of the
engineering troop which was then
passing, he ordered it to halt, and
my grandfather, an elderly gentleman,
ran out from the house'with
1 ? Vio ctnnd in and a few
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j things he could gather up in the
moment, climbed up over the back
wheel and into the wagon, and
grandfather and Uncle John Lanneau
waved goodbye, as we saw them disappearing
down Laurel street going
east.
i "We did not 'hear from grandfather
for a long while, and he had to endure
many hardships, as we did also
before we came together again.
"This Captain Lanneau was afterwards
Prof. John F. Lanneau, of
Wake Forest college. He was a graduate
of the Citadel, in Charleston, and
as brave a soldier as ever drew a
sword.
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our house at full gallop, one of the"
soldiers had the leather tstrap to his
canteen break. He tried to regain
it by drawing his sword, and fishing
it up, but failing in this he gave it up,
The foot of some horse struck it and
threw outside the line of march, and
as soon as the cavalry passed I ran
out and picked up the canteen, and
found it to be full of molasses. We
did not get the benefit of this find as
it was destroyed that night in the
burning of our home.
"I quote from my 'Mother's Recollections
of War' (page 9): 'Our
soldiers had meantime left the city,
feeling that resistance against such
odds was useless. Never shall I forget
the dejected look of the calvalry
as they rode past my door on Laurel
street, near Sumter. Quite a number
halted to say 'Goodbye, and God help
vnn '
" 'As the last of our little band disappeared,
I felt for the first time my
courage fail, and realized that we
were an unprotected community of
1 women and children in the hands of a
merciless foe. It was a moment to try
the souls of the most corageous but
the best must be made of the emergency.'
"I have often had the question
asked me: 'Did our ladies suffer any
indignation at the hands of the United
States soldiers?' I can answer
this by relating a true incident: That
evening about 8 p. m. we had a
United States soldier stationed at the
front door as a guard to our home.
There entered by the back door a
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j the bedroom at the rear of the house,
i He walked in unannounced into the
J presence of mother, in the privacy of
I her room. She of course demanded
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of him what he wanted. He replied
he would go where he pleased, and
do as he pleased, and was otherwise
insulting, as "the city belonged to
them. Mother called the guard, who
j at once responded Vith fixed bayonet,
and the intruder retired at once. Of
course in the great excitement that
surrounded us nothing more was
thought of the incident.
"The next morning on visiting the
wreck of our home, we found no trace
of anything except the melted glass
and crockery among the ashes where
J the dining room had stood. We saw
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j the charred remains of a man and
j a dog lying near each other at the
i place where the back steps went down
| from the piazza. We had neglected
| to unchain qur pet dog the after]
noon before, and he had burned to
death. The soldier was so drunk that
he must have tumbled down the backsteps,
and when he struck the ground
went to sleep, and in his drunken
stupor was burned to a crisp when
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the home fell, in. This is only one
of the many horrors of that awful
night.
"It seems but as yesterday, but it
was just 57 years ago that the following
incident happened in my life
and indelibly impressed itself on my
memory:
"On the night of February 17,
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| 15D0, me cxmureii iia.u uccu put t*j
[ bed as usual and were soon asleep,
I but by 10 o'clock mother awakened
I us and we dressed as if it were mornI
ing. We went on the front piazza of
our house on Laurel street, next to
Sumter, and saw great fires, houses
burning all around us. Tying a towel
around the outside of our "brown
aprons,' mother stuck in this belt
| knives, spoons, hair brushes, towels,
and then tied by strings to the same
belt coffee pots, cups, tin pans and
| such articles that were small and
light, and these with what we stood
in was all we saved. We had to leave
our home some time early in the
night for the middle of the street I
just in front of the large house on
the corner of Sumter and Marion,
where we spent the night. Sparks
were dropping all over us, and we
had to be frequently sprinkling ourselves
with water to keep from catching
fire. Just as we left our home it
was set on fire by the Yankee soldiers.
My mother saw them do it.
"The next morning my mother and
grandmother succeeded in getting
from Dr. Howe the lower room on the
northwest corner of the theological
seminary building. There we lived,
rather existed, for several weeks;
there were 16 souls all told including
nnr twn neero servants. In the street
that night there were four generations
of our family, my great-grandmother
being over 80 years of age. "A
few days after we had moved
in the seminary building my baby
sister, only a few months old, was
taken sick. Grandmother and mother
went to "'headquarters," the building
formerly occupied by Chicora college
for Women on Blanding street, to see
a doctor, whom they were sure they
could find there. They were met at
the head of the steps by an officer.
There was a large United States flag
draped from the large columns.
Standing under this flag the doctor,
in full uniform, came out. The reception
my mother got was a volley
of o^ths and curses. After a supposed
examination of the baby the doctor
went into his office and returned in
a few minutes with a bottle of medicine
and said that half a teaspoonful
would cure the baby. Thanking the
doctor, mother went to the room and
got a teaspoon. Grandmother opened
the vial, and being an elderly woman
and having considerable expererfce in
nursing, she examined the contents
of the vial and found it to be laudanum.
Of course, the medicine was
not given, and today that baby is a
matronly lady with a large family living
in Hendersonville, N. C.
"It might be interesting to know
that we came near starving, for food
was scarce, and when we did get anything
to cook we had no wood to
kindle fire, for all wood 'had been
burned. This was in Febraury, cold
and windy, but we had sunshine. The
seminary grounds was a camp crowded
with tents and soldiers, and their
horses tethered there. In feeding they
tit/mi-TiI drnn rnrn from their months.
and we children would pick up the
grains, wash them, mash them between
stones, and boil this into a
mush and eat. The soldiers were
kind to us children, oftentims giving
us some of their food as we played
around at feed time."
LONG FIGHT FOR LIFE.
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Man and Three Dogs Engaged in
Great Battle With Animal.
A man, three dogs and a big cougar
engaged in a frightful battle near
Husum, Wash., in the foothills of
Mount Adams, according to Gus
Olsen, who is under doctors' care for
several dozen deep cuts on his body.
Olsen, seekiifg a cougar guilty of
robbing him of several calves, started
three experienced hunting dogs
on the trail and they intercepted the
furious animal ill a hollow. The
cougar backed upward into a low
hanging cedar and cooly faced the
dogs, which went after it from all
sides.
The first dog within range of the
sharp claws of the big cat ihad its
head nearly severed and the second
dog to launch an offensive was ripped
open from end to end. The third
plucky dog was sailing into the flying
dlaws of the cougar when Olsen art
iirarl onH "firor?
Thinking the animal dead, Olsen
reached for its tail to pull it from the
tree. The cougar, suddenly became
a dynamo of destruction and in a few
minutes had torn Olsen's clothing to
shreds and left him bleeding from
several dozen deep scratches.
Olsen was entirely exhausted when
the cougaT fell dead from the slow
effects of the bullet in its lungs.
Philadelphia has 263 women physicians
and nine female clergymen.
One Crop System
Given Hard Blow
Diversified farming has come to
stay in Allendale county, according
to reports fram that section. The
boll weevil will find hard going this
year in a section of the state where
the value of diversified farming has
been proven by actual experience.
That the farmers of Allendale coun
ty are no longer willing to take a
chance on the one-crop system is evidenced
by the fact that many of them
are planting or preparing to plant a
variety of crops, says an article in
Monday's News and Courier. *
The growing of asparagus has attracted
the attention of many farmers
in the Allendale section and it is
stated that several hundred acres
will probably be planted in asparagus
this year. This is a move in the
hight direction but should not be
carried to the extreme of growing
asparagus to the detriment of all other
crops. The great cry for diversi
fication has not been a direct attack
on cotton any more than on other
crops. T.he fight is being waged
against the the on-crop system
and if any other crop takes the place |
of cotton and excludes all other crops
it will be open to the same attack
that has been and is being waged
against the one-crop system. It happens
that in the south the one-crop
.has been cotton and to all intents
and purposes the attack has been
made on cotton.
Variety of Crops.
Farmers in Allendale are not
planning on any one crop, according
to the Allendale County Citizen,
which says:
"Besides asparagus, the progressive
farmers about here are making preparations
to put in a larger acreage
than ever in Irish and sweet potatoes,
other vegetables and grains, besides
the usual crops of canteloupes, watermelons
and cucumbers. Indicadications
are that this will be the j
boll weevil's year, and those who are
familiar with conditions in the past |
in the face of this prediction, will be
very slow, it is believed, in putting in
a larger crop of cotton."
The Citizen ibas the following to
say regarding the growing of asparagus
in Allendale county:
"Despite rumors to the effect that
the farmers of this section will return
this year to the raising of cotton
on a large scale, it is not the general
belief here that such will be the case.
On the other hand, in the few days of
spring weather that have been the
order of the day here for the past
week, preparations have been going
forward to refute such a rumor.
To Grow Asparagus.
"New crops, in addition to those
already attempted here, are already
being talked of and put into operation.
Chief among these is asparagus.
While this section of the state
is one7 of the largest asparagus producing
scetions of the world, Allendale
county has never gone in for
that product until the present season.
During the past week there
Lave been several hundred acres of
this produce begun with a prospect
of many more during the next few
days. This product is one of the big
money crops of certain portions of
this section, and one which is nearly
always assured a good market, and
it is not strange that the progressive
farmers of this section have seen the j
advantages of it. It is understood
that the United States government
has recognized the importance of
quick marketing of asparague and
are now preparing to handle large
amounts, even to carload lots by parcel
post. This will add greatly to
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ods of transportation and will be of
great benefit to the producer.
"Among those here and about the'
county, who have begun the production
of asparagus, are: W. A. Chavous,
T. E. Crane, C. O. All, W. D.
Gray, J. J. Walker, N. D. Loadiholt,
Laurens Youmans, H. W. All, W. I.
Johns and W. T. Allen.
"It is hoped that the proposed
acreage this year will be increased
from year to year and tjiat Allendale
county will soon be a recognized leader
in the production, of asparagus.
One of the large nearby producers of
asparagus stated that ihe would like
to see 10,000 acres of this product
around Allendale. It would then be
possible for the section to practically
control the market inasmuch as they
are favored in most instances over
California producers as regards transportation,
quality and so forth."
A 1/1
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She had just received a proposal of
marriage.
"Mary," said the young man, "you
know* that I have always turned to
you; that I have always thought of
you. May I?that is?oh, will you be
my wife?"
"What a start you 'gave me,
George," said Mary at last. "Do you
know, I thought from your manner
that you were going to ask me to lend
you some money."
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