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As dawn broke on February 19 1865, W. B. Smith Whaley stared at the surreal scene unfolding before him. From the roof of the Lower Street Mill, he could see the city of Columbia, South Carolina smoldering in ruin, gory evidence of 'the glory of the coming of the Lord." The train depot was in ashes, boxcars overturned and train rails twisted into Sherman bow ties by the invading Union forces. Immediately before him he saw "the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps' occupied by over ten thousand Federal troops awaiting orders to "loose the fateful lightening of the Lord's terrible swift...