re: #399 sagehen

and yet, when they were done with Columbia:

“Early Monday morning, the 20th, the army marched out of the city in three columns, one taking Main Street north to the Winnsboro Road, one going out Taylor Street toward Camden, and one keeping close to the twisted rails of the Charlotte Railroad. In fact, the Federals had resumed their march toward the railroad junction at Goldsboro, North Carolina. Once they crossed the state line, all burning, looting, and foraging ceased. The army gave more to the people of North Carolina than it took, some soldiers observed, by way of redistributing the wealth of South Carolina to the state that was the last and most reluctant to secede from the Union.”
[Link: www.sc.edu…]

Proportionate recompense.