A Woman's Wartime Journal: An Account of the Passage over Georgia's Plantation of Sherman's Army on the March to the Sea, as Recorded in the Diary of ... Lunt (Mrs. Thomas Burge). (Docsouth Book) - Softcover

Lunt, Dolly Sumner

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1469607786 ISBN 13: 9781469607788

Verlag: A DocSouth Books Edition: The University of North, 2012

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Book by Lunt Dolly Sumner

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Dolly Sumner Lunt begins her diary, A Woman's Wartime Journal, published in 1918, by recalling her anxiety about the approach of General Sherman's Union army on January 1, 1864. While she worries about the arrival of Sherman's troops and their habit of pillaging and burning everything in their path, she records stories of visits by local raiders posing as U.S. soldiers and the sleepless nights she has spent watching fires on the horizon. Despite Lunt's efforts to hide her valuable possessions, which include sending her mules into the woods, dividing her stores of meat among the slaves, and burying the silver, the passing Union troops raid her house and plantation and take her slaves with them. They also set fire to cotton bales in her barn, but the blaze burns out before spreading, largely sparing Lunt's property the widespread destruction suffered by neighboring plantations. In her last entries, dated December 1865, Lunt writes optimistically about the recovery of her farm, her new sharecropping system, and the first cheerful Christmas in years.

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Biografía del autor:

Dolly Sumner Lunt (1817-1891), a Maine native and widow of Thomas Burge, managed her Georgia plantation by herself during the Civil War.

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• Verlag: A DocSouth Books Edition: The University of North
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1469607786
• ISBN 13: 9781469607788
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 30