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Personal Experiences Of Mrs. Campbell Bryce During The Burning Of Columbia, South Carolina By General W. T. Sherman's Army, February 17, 1865, Campbell Bryce

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This record of my personal experiences during the occupation of Columbia by the Federal army under General W. T. Sherman, I dedicate to you, my dear children, remembering well how eagerly I sought for and cherished every tradition and scrap of history handed down to me by my parents of their parents, who were participants in the War of the Revolution. Though this story has often been told, and is old and familiar, I flatter myself that your children and your children's children will appreciate my record far more than you do now, to whom it is more. than a …