What else was destroyed at Columbia - Feb 1865

The following are the estimates of what were so destroyed [at Columbia]:

• 1,000 bales of cotton, 
• 19 locomotives,
•  20 box cars;
•  five tons of railroad machinery,
• 25 powder mills, the mills being destroyed by being blown up; 
• Armory near the Congaree River,
• 10 tons of machinery used by the Confederate army, 
• 43 cannon.
• 10,000 rounds artillery ammunition
• 500,000 rounds for small arms

From the Autobiography of O.O. Howard