core later on that same night (Capture of Columbia). The events that followed Columbia's surrender can best be understood by reading excerpts of a diary entry by 17-year-old Emma LeConte:
             General Sherman has assured the mayor, that [he and all
             the citizens can sleep well because] private property shall
             be carefully respected....At about seven o'clock, I was standing
             on the back piazza in the third story. On one side the sky was
             illuminated by the burning of General Hampton's residence
             a few miles off in the country. On the other side, ...Sumter
             Street was so brightly lighted by a burning house so ne
             ...