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) /

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Author / Creator:	Lunt, Dolly Sumner, 1817-1891.
Imprint:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Description:	1 online resource (30 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subject:	Lunt, Dolly Sumner, -- 1817-1891. Lunt, Dolly Sumner, -- 1817-1891 Sherman's March to the Sea -- Personal narratives. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate. Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. Georgia -- Biography. Georgia. United States. Electronic books. Biographies. History. Personal narratives. Personal narratives -- Confederate.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11167032

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ISBN:	9781469607795 1469607794 9781469607801 1469607808 9781469607788 1469607786
Notes:	Print version record.
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.
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

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