That night the heavens were in a glow, the red light of fires in town. Tuesday they burned the Arsenal and all government property. The offices of the Fayetteville Observer and North Carolina Presbyterian … were destroyed. Cotton factories of which there were six or seven, and an iron foundry, grist mills too, shared the same fate. -- an excerpt of a letter from Miss Sarah Ann Tillinghast recounting General Shermans March 1865 occupation of Fayetteville. Read the full letter here: bit.ly/1Bd3y58 #CW150 Thanks to Museum of the Cape Fear Historical Complex
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