'No, don't!' said I, and ran home as fast as I could, with Sadai. Jim immediately raised his gun, swearing he would kill them anyhow. Happening to turn and look behind, as we stood there, I saw some blue-coats coming down the hill. Before we were done talking, up came Joe and Jim Perry from their hiding-place.

Perry had just sent her word that the Yankees went to James Perry's the night before, plundered his house, and drove off all his stock, and that she must drive hers into the old fields. She said she was looking for her husband, that old Mrs.

Laura in the road surrounded by her children, seeming to be looking for some one. Joe Perry's, my nearest neighbor, where the Yankees were yesterday. As we were not disturbed, I walked after breakfast, with Sadai, up to Mr. Slept in my clothes last night, as I heard that the Yankees went to neighbor Montgomery's on Thursday night at one o'clock, searched his house, drank his wine, and took his money and valuables. Dolly kept a diary of her experiences and we join her story as When her husband died in 1858, Dolly was left alone to manage the plantationĪnd its slaves. where she met and married Thomas Burge, a plantation owner. To Georgia as a young woman to join her married sister. Johnston surrendered to Sherman in North Carolina seventeen days after Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox.ĭolly Sumner Lunt was born in Maine in 1817. On April 26, Confederate troops under General Joseph E. Sherman stayed in Savannah until the end of January and then continued his scorched earth campaign through the Carolinas. It was the beginning of the end for the Confederacy. Two days later, Sherman telegraphed President Lincoln with the message 'I beg to present to you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah.' Sherman's army reached Savannah on December 22. Of burnt out houses) and 'Sherman neckties' (railroad rails that had been heatedĪlong the way, his army was joined by thousands of former slaves who brought up the rear of the march because they had no other place to go. Wake of his progress to the sea he left numerous 'Sherman sentinels' (the chimneys Plantations were burned, crops destroyed and stores of food pillaged. His army of 65,000 cut a broad swath as it lumbered towards its destination. Unbeknownst to his enemy, Sherman's objective was the port of Savannah. No word would be heard from him for theįive weeks. Telegraph wire that linked him to his superiors in the North. Sherman's 'scorched earth' campaign began on November 15th when he cut the last The Confederate'sĮvasive tactics doomed Sherman's plan to achieve victory on the battlefield soĪlternative strategy: destroy the South by laying waste to its economic and transportation Georgia in a vain attempt to lure them into a decisive fight. He devoted the next few weeks to chasing Confederate troops through northern

Atlanta fell to Sherman's Army in early Septemberġ864.

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