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Woman's Wartime Journal
Dolly Sumner Lunt
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Description for Woman's Wartime Journal
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) Num Pages: 30 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BG; DQ; HBJK; HBLL; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Condition
New
Number of Pages
30
Format
Paperback
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9781469607788
SKU
V9781469607788
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About Dolly Sumner Lunt
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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