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 Dolly Sumner Lunt (Mrs. Thomas Burge)

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 possessio...