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Excerpt from Sack and Destruction of the City of Columbia, S. C: To Which Is Added a List of the Property Destroyed
When, by a crime, no less than blunder, General J ohnston was removed from the command of the Confederate armies in Georgia, which he had conducted with such signal ability, there were not a few of our citizens who felt the impending danger, and trembled at the disastrous couse quences which they partly foresaw. The removal of a General so fully in the confidence of his troops, who had so long bat?ed the conquests, if he could not arrest the march, of the opposing army, was of itself a proceed ing to startle the thoughtful mind. General Sherman declared his satis faction at the event, and on repeated occasions since has expressed himself to the same effect. He was emboldened by the change, and almost in stantly after, his successes became rapid and of the most decided character.
General J ohnston was by nature, no less than training and education, the very best of the Confederate generals to be Opposed to General Sher man. To the nervo-sanguine temperament, eager and impetuous, of the latter, he opposed a moral and physical natnre - calm, sedate, circumspect cool, vigilant and wary - always patient and watchful of his moment never rash or precipitate, but ever firm and decisive - his resources all regulated by a self-possessed will, and a mind in full possession of that military coup d'cez'l which, grasping the remotest relations of the field, is, probably, the very first essential to a general having the control of a large and various army.
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