Title 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) / by Dolly Sumner Lunt ; with an introduction and notes by Julian Street.

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Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2012.

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Contents	About This Edition; Summary; INTRODUCTION; A WOMAN'S WARTIME JOURNAL.
Summary	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.
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Subject	Lunt, Dolly Sumner, 1817-1891.
	Lunt, Dolly Sumner, 1817-1891.
	American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865)
	Sherman's March to the Sea (1864)
	United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate.
	Sherman's March to the Sea -- Personal narratives.
Genre/Form	Personal narratives.
Subject	Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
	Georgia -- Biography.
	Georgia.
Chronological Term	1861 - 1865
Genre/Form	Biographies.
	Electronic books.
	History.
	Personal narratives -- Confederate.
	Autobiographies.
	Autobiographies.
	Personal narratives.
Other Form:	Print version: Lunt, Dolly Sumner. 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). Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, ©2012 9781469607788
ISBN	9781469607795 (electronic book)
	1469607794 (electronic book)

Title 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) / by Dolly Sumner Lunt ; with an introduction and notes by Julian Street.

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