Table of Contents
1 Will They Invade Us-Where Is Their Army? 7
2 You'd Better Get Out; We Are the Fifteenth Corps 13
3 There Goes Your Old Gospel Shop 21
4 They Are South Carolinians, Not Americans 27
5 Here Began a Carnival of Destruction 35
6 Men Gasping in Death 45
7 Yanks, You Better Leave This Country 63
8 Build Them Strong, Catterson 69
9 Those Fellows Are Trying to Stop Us 75
10 Nothing in South Carolina Was Held Sacred 81
11 A Hasty Visit to Mr. Simms 87
12 The Plantations Now Looked Desolate 97
13 The Most Complete Rout I Have Ever Witnessed 103
14 Only Those Who Were There Could Tell 107
15 As If a Knife Was Cutting the Flesh 117
16 The Men of This Army Surprise Me Every Day 123
17 A Conqueror through the Streets of Columbia 141
18 Forests Filled with Flames and Pitch-Black Smoke 147
19 The Language Would Create Consternation 155
Conclusion: The Army Marched Triumphantly into Humiliated Columbia 161
Notes 169
Bibliography 181
Index 187
About the Author 191
