Sack and Destruction of Columbia, S. C. [1865]

A firsthand detailed account of this event by the leading author in the antebellum South who "was upward of thirty years one of the most prolific and one of the most popular of American authors." Simms' graphic word picture of this premeditated hate crime against a region as well as a city—in which his own home and possessions were destroyed—is 84 pages of primary source material.