Author: (Sherman, William T.)
Title: "Sherman's March through Columbia, S.C." in Harper's Weekly (April 1, 1865}
Description: New York, 1865. First Edition. 0 pp. Disbound. Complete and original issue. NOT A REPRINT BUT THE ORIGINAL, RARE DOCUMENT. Very good with moderate wear to spine where disbound and stray foxing, tiny knick to foredge of first two pages and .2" closed tear to foredge of another page. This issue has many illustrations and a cover story about General Wm Sherman's march through Columbia, S.C. The cover portrait shows "General Sherman's Entry into Columbia, South Carolina, February 17, 1865." Two entire pages are devoted to "Sherman's March through the Carolinas" with article and 11 illustrations of sites in Blackville, Hanging Rock, Rocky Hill, Chesterfield, Winnsborough, Fayetteville, and, of course, Columbia. The centerfold contains 6 drawings related to the ruination of Columbia, including a view from the State Capitol and a cityscape of the devestation the "morning after the fire." Sherman's "foragers" are shown in two illustrations on another page as well as Ft. Sumter (by Stanley Fox), "Long Dock at Hilton Head--Landing of Recruits from Charleston" (by Stanley Fox) and "Negro Recruits at Charleston." An editorial contrasts the nobility of Robert E. Lee with the "old politician," Jefferson Davis. Unrelated to the Civil War is an interesting editorial on the need for New York City to clean up its tenant-houses and streets with 500,000 people living in unsanitary tenent-houses and a death rate as high as 70 per 1000 yearly in some of them. Very Good.

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