A City Laid Waste (eBook)

The Capture, Sack, and Destruction of the City of Columbia

William Gilmore Simms (Autor)

David Aiken (Herausgeber)

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2020
160 Seiten
University of South Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-64336-128-4 (ISBN)

Infos

"e;A graphic account of the horrors, the brutality and sometimes wanton destruction of warfare, particularly of civil war."e; -Charleston (SC) Post and CourierIn the first reissue of these documents since 1865, A City Laid Waste captures in riveting detail the destruction of South Carolina's capital city. William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870), a native South Carolinian and one of the nation's foremost men of letters, was in Columbia and witnessed firsthand the city's capture and destruction. A renowned novelist and poet, who was also an experienced journalist and historian, Simms deftly recorded the events of February 1865 in a series of eyewitness accounts published in the first ten issues of the Columbia Phoenix and reprinted here. His record of burned buildings constitutes the most authoritative information available on the extent of the damage. Simms historian David Aiken provides a historical and literary context for Simms's reportage. In his introduction Aiken clarifies the significance of Simms's articles and draws attention to factors most important for understanding the occupation's impact on the city of Columbia."e;A shrewd viewer of the war scene in Columbia, famed Southern writer William Gilmore Simms published stinging, courageous exposes of the doings of the Northern forces, even when threatened with arrest. The restoration of his candid firsthand accounts of the destruction wrought by Sherman's forces against the South Carolina capitol and its inhabitants is a great service to all who study and appreciate Southern history and literature."e; -James Everett Kibler, author of Our Fathers' Fields

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.2.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 16 b&w halftones
• Verlagsort: Columbia
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: 1865 • arson • Battle of Hanging Rock • burned buildings • Capture • Censure • Civil War • Columbia • Conflagration • disgrace • Embarrassment • fire • humiliation • In cold blood • Looting • Non-combatant • On the Night of the Fire • ridicule • Robbery • Sc • South Carolina • Starvation • Theft • The Offence • Union • V. • war • War Crime • warfare
• ISBN-10: 1-64336-128-7 / 1643361287
• ISBN-13: 978-1-64336-128-4 / 9781643361284