TY - BOOK AU - Lunt,Dolly Sumner TI - 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) SN - 9781469607795 AV - E605 .W663 2012 PY - 2012/// CY - Chapel Hill PB - University of North Carolina Press KW - Georgia KW - Biography KW - History KW - Civil War, 1861-1865 KW - Personal narratives KW - Sherman's March to the Sea KW - United States KW - Personal narratives, Confederate KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; About This Edition; Summary; INTRODUCTION; A WOMAN'S WARTIME JOURNAL; 2; b N2 - 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 bur UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=503237&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -