SHERMAN IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
Instructions of General Grant. -- Sherman's Plan. --
Expectation of the Rebels. -- Grover's Division. -- His Army in
Motion. -- Howard's Advance to the Salkehatchie. -- Crossing
the River. -- Hardee retires to Branchville. -- Kilpatrick's
Movement towards Augusta. -- Consternation of the Rebels. --
Sherman moves to Orangeburg. -- General Potter's Division. --
Hampton's and Wheeler's Cavalry. -- Hampton's Home. --
Columbia. -- Burning of the City. -- Sherman charges Hampton
with kindling the Fire. -- Bitterness of South-Carolinians
against General Sherman. -- Responsibility of the Rebel
Government for Outrages. 436