Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 1
The image that emerges and which seems most reasonable when the pieces
are assembled is an imposing and terrible portrait of theft and arson by
an invading Army against non-combatants, the destruction of civilian
property, spoilage of unused foodstuffs, the slaughter of livestock, all
of which, with few exceptions, left a people without the means of
feeding themselves—a desolation of Biblical proportion! Thankfully,
there are a few acts of humanity by those who wore the blue, but their
scarcity in these accounts are a blot on the cause and character of this
war of aggression.
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