Not one solitary house escaped unscathed--not one remained habitable, even.

Such utter and complete ruin one could hardly conceive of.

The houses had all been solid, dressed stone structures; most of them were ploughed through and through by cannon balls--unroofed and sliced down from eaves to foundation--and now a row of them, half a mile long, looks merely like an endless procession of battered chimneys.

No semblance of a house remains in such as these.

Some of the larger buildings had corners knocked off; pillars cut in two; cornices smashed; holes driven straight through the walls.