[HiTech RedNeck]

Something juicy like this and a claim of the historical record but no citation.

How odd.

[The_Media_never_lie]

If you are looking for eyewitness accounting of this event, read "A City Laid Waste", by William Gillmore Sims. It is available at Amazon. Sims recorded accounts of this event at great personal peril shortly after it happened.

A bit of historical irony. The very day that the confederate flag came down over Columbia, and the same day Columbia was burned to the ground by Union soldiers, who slashed the fire hoses of the fire brigades, 20 black women were raped by Union soldiers and one black woman was murdered. No white women were raped, because citizens kept firearms and because of the southern code of honor. It is part of he historical record. They never taught this in high school.