Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    A City Laid Waste: The Capture, Sack, and Destruction of the City of Columbia
    A City Laid Waste: The Capture, Sack, and Destruction of the City of Columbia
    A City Laid Waste: The Capture, Sack, and Destruction of the City of Columbia
    Ebook263 pages3 hours

    A City Laid Waste: The Capture, Sack, and Destruction of the City of Columbia

    By William Gilmore Simms and David Aiken

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    “A graphic account of the horrors, the brutality and sometimes wanton destruction of warfare, particularly of civil war.” —Charleston (SC) Post and Courier

    In 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.

    “A shrewd viewer of the war scene in Columbia, famed Southern writer William Gilmore Simms published stinging, courageous exposés 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.” —James Everett Kibler, author of Our Fathers’ Fields
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateFeb 17, 2020
    ISBN9781643361284
    A City Laid Waste: The Capture, Sack, and Destruction of the City of Columbia

    Read more from William Gilmore Simms

    Related to A City Laid Waste

    Related ebooks

    United States History For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Challenge Your BC Bookshelf

      Jun 4, 2020

      Challenge Your BC Bookshelf
      10 min read

    • Article

      Holding A Mirror Up To Local Stories

      Dec 4, 2018

      Every year we see the publication of more diverse books about British Columbia’s history, reflecting the expectations of readers and the interests of authors and historians. My eyes are drawn to titles on bookstore shelves that amplify underrepresent

      15 min read

    • Article

      A Real Story of Memorial Day

      May 23, 2014

      A Real Story of Memorial Day
      3 min read

    • Article

      Dauntless Son

      Dec 14, 2021

      Dauntless Son
      4 min read

    • Article

      Legacy School

      Apr 27, 2021

      Legacy School
      14 min read

    • Article

      Reviewing our Past

      Mar 6, 2018

      Reviewing our Past
      3 min read

    • Article

      The Man Behind The National Anthem Paid Little Attention To It

      Jul 4, 2017

      Francis Scott Key is most famous for writing the "Star Spangled Banner." But after he penned the now-famous lyrics, he hardly mentioned them.

      4 min read

    • Article

      Beyond the Myth of Malcolm X

      Oct 15, 2020

      Beyond the Myth of Malcolm X
      15 min read

    • Article

      Book Review

      Aug 18, 2023

      KIM – by Jon Pressnell Published by Dalton Watson £115/US$145 ISBN: 978-1-956309-11-9 Just occasionally there comes a book which is in some ways exhausting. Jon Pressnell’s mammoth biography of Cecil Kimber, crafted with passion and dedication over a

      3 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: Bill Morris

      Dec 20, 2020

      This was the year I finally, belatedly, decided to figure out why people make such a fuss about Joy Williams. The post A Year in Reading: Bill Morris appeared first on The Millions.

      6 min read

    • Article

      Biography of a Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel

      Feb 1, 2019

      Shields has composed a portrait of the complicated author and the darknesses that drove Williams to write, to overcompensate, to philander, to mansplain. The post Biography of a Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel appeared first on The Millions.

      6 min read

    • Article

      Collective Futures

      Jun 15, 2023

      From utopian communities of the past to rethinking how history should be shared in the future, this issue is, at different times, provocative and entertaining, encouraging conversations about both BC’s history and our collective future. Over the cour

      2 min read

    • Article

      How We REMEMBER

      Jun 16, 2021

      How We REMEMBER
      10 min read

    • Article

      First The RUSH Then The BREAKDOWN

      Jan 7, 2020

      First The RUSH Then The BREAKDOWN
      11 min read

    • Article

      Reading and Writing California

      Jun 30, 2020

      Reading and Writing California
      9 min read

    • Article

      Hill’s country

      Feb 22, 2022

      Hill’s country
      5 min read

    • Article

      The Late Bloomer

      Sep 1, 2023

      “An eccentric woman deserves an eccentric biography.” So writes Willard Spiegelman in this first biography of the poet Amy Clampitt. If there was anything eccentric about the genteel bohemian Amy Clampitt, it was that she was extremely private about

      5 min read

    • Article

      Columbus Circle Without Columbus? New York's Statue Debate Hits Italian-Americans Hard

      Dec 15, 2017

      The famous memorial, donated to the city by immigrants in 1892, the 400th anniversary of Columbus’s first voyage, has been caught up in the nationwide controversy over the meaning of history and the purpose of public monuments.

      6 min read

    • Article

      Sinclair Lewis, American Prophet

      Mar 6, 2017

      It Can’t Happen Here, a 1935 novel about the rise of a fascist government in America has been garnering plenty of attention post-election, but even as it muscles its way onto bestseller lists and inspires think pieces in publications like the New Yor

      8 min read

    • Article

      The Jefferson Nickel

      Jun 25, 2020

      The Jefferson Nickel
      5 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for A City Laid Waste

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      A City Laid Waste - William Gilmore Simms

      dbook_preview_excerpt.html\˒FĬj[ d[-[ K=^&$&37֟/s rG̢E dǹ>ǻO{|{yH>y'\nj_姏ypaO^Ճ{~FNG}ZԹr}SB:r7հ!U8;Uv9ľT8ҥ؆]TowT~3Tk 0䛱cgyS]4Ovn8MGވ)>pǧi#o?[z>UCwhOXV1{ܢv}W\S1]k=eܺq.Dr\ B?~?|pm^O^so?͵ɻaEq zyѥCL.MǡcazJk!^TWCMLq3crønC~ [^UmIh2cnUm).EuLػռH^]y!7)8c\2D]bb 7 ޯFǥcà5=%8NTp\ϐ=N9IJ}(&0`:!XXz} RV%f* VuY2Kbw[by'{:J(W9FQ rX7bXp $v>AÄ!ECi5,G;:K f/V(P~͘hn#P Ϟda:"7$& _XM!Py@؄)tr[(RE'n/RGHptlwQ=m]bE\tjK׫nUnC:quHO+<ֵ*']W wJ=S_z7ťu͊2nM#V]ˣ&;\ Cȹ6tk " e@fk t @x # k )Ĭ ;T䴆#Idĥ3#w¨ۖrSdԢ>:` 2: VgʼnŶPb!RQ0Hd $Td<ZZF3\b%< 09ϘØur"c "<f2"Mr˰NdXx҄};͈[C uP5l\!CM]H^T_9|aFt>tSj@m(? ->MWN O<դV sTdp9-j"|XV^/6hN#Pj$EtlQ7XE2 Y3wqhSE1zeJpc  l}@X jc7@a-\`IҒ7]M*GBJ[&P*xKZ|FH~vNei'"b7bl#;bC c>K 9H)3Gqs) Q@/\#_+6c>$.#Ҁ΀^O|ui*aǧIb%8Fu z)j?/]HZ1d PeUPنʬZȶd]+}ϴT8.)=&ס֨0g|nj)j׮K}Ѻax"#(^u\^55Sj.d k)(򟙠t,r蕒hK*ZX:ZdIT}Z`X0ׅ~:ֆјY=10o!UFGIXIr,+xM:`V2C`Xv /aOܩd$r<tN64 y%AXoۅӖ3"ާ-Y'm&K4y _r 4O(ϔ_$$|A]Im49,iW.yVӠt+K^4kf]|c;(O5_"P# lU'>e#iw`Rm. <`hBr''|R.4d5v 0y/Qf>'WBVZN@[w3AĮTګM^xn=XS˕ -gi1 hr1Z1ǵ߲o}%5boE$ -v&v0LɃ&k),jM.{Mv8eR%r/9x$֢vxsLC&w r,3-i0VM,?Qo.VڳB8W6q UaJg=Ӝiԍyi5 Y}ɚaN  f] A4V*H]" \jd:ijlX4,i*Bz Ħ"%CѴ{ZȌQS]X|Kg leXef!b9|ᒣT24l܌=\ Zgż gג=ŝEȀxEKqMDEVYVŇ,'y\֯'Z>:+n]cq 贰ZxCR[Z2xf,|2Yxb/'Nm#EIwe2uJؽvm!')k3-lf㍦X4'1'H|P;٫lBnMZ%YBhztCxV뱬2 &I yi(m'.{aX y/$mcr$bz5Awq+GXC/2nr[~͋admA94)Y6-=T6_ٚJ$YH̉90ڵD&?`F_ 45)9PF⏳vql-4٢yq#쯓͜ަxҠ [%z PK'ΏݳoLg\3M5i}xuӎ32ϓkR m{Ȏk;? 1={Iu^ I)\-LzulR5[·&":z[Q(1hp[3u&P[ :+hlw^݁#l_oнG.qbl4y5$&"zLOh ,-qE5+6>m H3\XE04kݠ-RY[R[;@]yCamy*64a3ptυr2߄yZ&ᲅ 8 1;;VšsOUBiBsޓ$t^wLMGn\z'2io5`?HjɄutR+%ѳ86Es$vQsڝ)jܸώpIq Qb7eh߭?zd5$i=Y&Ahb:2k~Jð`F W:3]>He Ԭ͙N-Ěf_7 $gCB/hźJƽҙHkH&ݔ +Ý'woey~bc޻3,ML5f2J˔WNJ\ٹ_5lYM^Ȭ8zZD{i:{}L= )zf]G2 5ƶtlEVpG:po5ka]f~d0~WSi"??ҫ 1ŃE%G+N%"%F*<=YoѲ&-uYωh-d;N}o pj8?U_5(U]f>YyoNᰜ.N!MTpb| Q}zبM))k4MɌp ({qk'}@( Ik_5ҳ}TaW;.ԪnJ*ؼ@m mln#[ r$_/O`M4 DϖN)M _Ιi@l)ȰjޓnUQLBTtfL%fChkXLe\C>x#`YRٯ%]jXELc4 s~ӗ"Emfݧ8*9Y Eb3}~/ձJJ0vqՇP]rޒӼH!ŀ[$ qF&ܻqMc{G**Wi qt+q1rTcke+JwJޥ^mNW"upO顿mg,b:Vj@B_ӡ Xorٳ[z%T-=kı~s")갳Tk|ՊYca%*Nw.K2b,ڒp7L9k?U`zv2mn*{-?$g:N e*I[ (J E/!-vLn-2n3P[>:ͤ5md_q"^B2hAfp4fZgrRDO'B_= pʓ9D-1 9 D0t@y֣O&7",S\`f~)Pax@ |gPV\l}3agz2 ΰ&;5}ؚAՉzY|cN~~77LCޝr*N8im2.j1K^XvZvytQg_ % {}QW&m0w^8QâZ(#KP2cCyOʑKgJVu97?zOP^ =={Ӵ P& N9e1Z.<Xڋ8Xo, X^M:L:]'U "=kdJ[,䱗’7
      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1