Footnotes

1. Arbuckle, John C. Civil War Experiences of a Foot Soldier Who Marched with Sherman. Columbus: 1930, p 122.
2. Report of Major General William T. Sherman. Millwood, NY: Kraus Reprint Company, 1977, p 289.
3. Report of Major General William T. Sherman. Millwood, NY: Kraus Reprint Company, 1977, p 312.
4. Nichols, George Ward. Story of the Great March. New York: Harper Brothers, 1865, p 153.
5. Gibbes, James G. Who Burnt Columbia? Newberry, SC: Elbert H. Aull, 1902, p 106.
6. Report of Major General William T. Sherman. Millwood, NY: Kraus Reprint Company, 1977, pp 288-289.
7. Report of Major General William T. Sherman. Millwood, NY: Kraus Reprint Company, 1977, p 279.
8. Report of Major General William T. Sherman. Millwood, NY: Kraus Reprint Company, 1977, p 281.
9. Report of Major General William T. Sherman. Millwood, NY: Kraus Reprint Company, 1977, p 284.
10. Report of Major General William T. Sherman. Millwood, NY: Kraus Reprint Company, 1977, p 285.
11. Report of Major General William T. Sherman. Millwood, NY: Kraus Reprint Company, 1977, p 287.
12. Report of Major General William T. Sherman. Millwood, NY: Kraus Reprint Company, 1977, p 288.
13. Report of Major General William T. Sherman. Millwood, NY: Kraus Reprint Company, 1977, p 291.
14. Report of Major General William T. Sherman. Millwood, NY: Kraus Reprint Company, 1977, p 282.
15. Report of Major General William T. Sherman. Millwood, NY: Kraus Reprint Company, 1977, p 296.
16. Report of Major General William T. Sherman. Millwood, NY: Kraus Reprint Company, 1977, p 302.
17. Gibbes, James G. Who Burnt Columbia? Newberry, SC: Elbert H. Aull, 1902, p 4, 18. Moore, John Hammond, ed. Southern Homefront,1861-1865. Columbia: Summer House Press, 1998, p 234.
19. Daily Southern Guardian, December 2, 1864.
20. The [Columbia, SC] Daily South Carolinian, January 18, 1865.
21. The Daily South Carolinian, January 18, 1865.
22. Carter, Molly. Sylvester Bleckley Papers.
23. Nichols, George Ward. Story of the Great March. New York: Harper Brothers, 1865, p 127.
24. Davis, Burke. Sherman’s March. New York: Random House, 1988, pp 139-140.
25. Report of Major General William T. Sherman. Millwood, NY: Kraus Reprint Company, 1977, p 305.
26. Nichols, George Ward. Story of the Great March. New York: Harper Brothers, 1865, p 131.
27. S.F. Fleharty. “Our Regiment: A History of the 102d. Illinois Infantry Volunteers.” Chicago, 1865, pp 146-147.
28. Cox, Jacob D. Sherman’s March to the Sea. Cambridge: Da Capo Press, 1994, p 170.
29. Cox, Jacob D. Sherman’s March to the Sea. Cambridge: Da Capo Press, 1994, p 168.
30. Davis, Burke. Sherman’s March. New York: Random House, 1988, p 147.
31. Arbuckle, John C. Civil War Experiences of a Foot Soldier Who Marched with Sherman. Columbus: 1930, p 124.
32. Nichols, George Ward. Story of the Great March. New York: Harper Brothers, 1865, p 131.
33. Nichols, George Ward. Story of the Great March. New York: Harper Brothers, 1865, p 140.
34. Davis, Burke. Sherman’s March. New York: Random House, 1988, pp 143-144.
35. Conyngham, David P. Sherman’s March Through the South. New York: Sheldon and Company, 1865, p 324.
36. Report of Major General William T. Sherman. Millwood, NY: Kraus Reprint Company, 1977, p 327.
37. Nichols, George Ward. Story of the Great March. New York: Harper Brothers, 1865, p154. Arbuckle, John C. Civil War Experiences of a Foot Soldier Who Marched with Sherman. Columbus: 1930, p 127.
38. Byers, S.H.M. What I saw in Dixie; or Sixteen Months in Rebel Prisons. Dansville, NY: Express Printing House. 1868, p 347.
39. LeConte, Joseph. ‘Ware Sherman: A Journal of Three Months’ Personal Experience in the Last Days of the Confederacy. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Press, 1999, p 83.
40. Nichols, George Ward. Story of the Great March. New York: Harper Brothers, 1865, p 156.
41. Arbuckle, John C. Civil War Experiences of a Foot Soldier Who Marched with Sherman. Columbus: 1930, p 128.
42. Gibbes, James G. Who Burnt Columbia? Newberry, SC: Elbert H. Aull, 1902, p 25.
43. Byers, S.H.M. What I saw in Dixie; or Sixteen Months in Rebel Prisons. Dansville, NY: Express Printing House. 1868, pp 347-348.
44. Byers, S.H.M. What I saw in Dixie; or Sixteen Months in Rebel Prisons. Dansville, NY: Express Printing House. 1868, pp 347-348.
45. Conyngham, David P. Sherman’s March Through the South. New York: Sheldon and Company, 1865, p 325.
46. Byers, S.H.M. What I saw in Dixie; or Sixteen Months in Rebel Prisons. Dansville, NY: Express Printing House. 1868, p 348.
47. Arbuckle, John C. Civil War Experiences of a Foot Soldier Who Marched with Sherman. Columbus: 1930, p 128.
48. Taylor, Mrs. Thomas, ed. South Carolina Women in the Confederacy, Vol. I, Columbia: State Company, 1903, p 262.
49. Taylor, Mrs. Thomas, ed. South Carolina Women in the Confederacy, Vol. I, Columbia: State Company, 1903, p 182.
50. Conyngham, David P. Sherman’s March Through the South. New York: Sheldon and Company, 1865, p 326.
51. Byers, S.H.M. With Fire and Sword. Washington: The Neale Publishing Company, 1911, p 144.
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53. Conyngham, David P. Sherman’s March Through the South. New York: Sheldon and Company, 1865, p 326.
54. Arbuckle, John C. Civil War Experiences of a Foot Soldier Who Marched with Sherman. Columbus: 1930, p 127.
55. Gibbes, James G. Who Burnt Columbia? Newberry, SC: Elbert H. Aull, 1902, pp 100-103.
56. Arbuckle, John C. Civil War Experiences of a Foot Soldier Who Marched with Sherman. Columbus: 1930, p 129.
57. Gibbes, James G. Who Burnt Columbia? Newberry, SC: Elbert H. Aull, 1902, p 5.
58. Nichols, George Ward. Story of the Great March. New York: Harper Brothers, 1865, pp 160-161.
59. Arbuckle, John C. Civil War Experiences of a Foot Soldier Who Marched with Sherman. Columbus: 1930, pp 129-130.
60. Arbuckle, John C. Civil War Experiences of a Foot Soldier Who Marched with Sherman. Columbus: 1930, p 130.
61. Conyngham, David P. Sherman’s March Through the South. New York: Sheldon and Company, 1865, p 327.
62. Gibbes, James G. Who Burnt Columbia? Newberry, SC: Elbert H. Aull, 1902, pp 100-103.
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71. Wells, Edward. A Sketch of the Charleston Light Dragoons. Charleston: Lucas, Richardson & Co., 1888, p 81.
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74. Conyngham, David P. Sherman’s March Through the South. New York: Sheldon and Company, 1865, p 329.
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76. Gibbes, James G. Who Burnt Columbia? Newberry, SC: Elbert H. Aull, 1902, pp 28-29.
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78. Gibbes, James G. Who Burnt Columbia? Newberry, SC: Elbert H. Aull, 1902, p 102.
79. Taylor, Mrs. Thomas, ed. South Carolina Women in the Confederacy, Vol. I, Columbia: State Company, 1903, p 321.
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110. Byers, S.H.M. What I saw in Dixie; or Sixteen Months in Rebel Prisons. Dansville, NY: Express Printing House. 1868, pp 352-353.
111. Byers, S.H.M. With Fire and Sword. Washington: The Neale Publishing Company, 1911, pp 168-169.
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