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The Daily Dispatch: August 31, 1863., [Electronic resource], The late raid (search)
Charleston.
--A telegram published Friday says:
"Gen. Sherman says if Gillmore has taken Charleston and fails to lay the city in ashes, he will be sacrificed by his troops.
His superiors — the Northern people — demand the utter destruction of Charleston."
The usual grandiloquent and Bombasts Furioso style of Yankee bulletins! "If Gillmore has taken Charleston (which he has not,) he will be sacrificed by his troops unless he burns it down at once, that and nothing less being thisted in the salvation of Charleston from the dismal fate of Yankee subjugation.
Better, far better, than such a fate, that Charleston should be laid in ashes, either by its barbarian foe or the hands of its own brave defenders.
That which Sherman threatens as the extremity of Yankee vengeance, the burning of the town, is mercy compared with its occupation by Yankees, with the living death of New Orleans.
But we believe it is destined to neither of these calamities.
It is defended by a