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In her last entries, dated December 1865, Lunt writes optimistically about the recovery of her farm, her new sharecropping system, and the first cheerful Christmas in years. They also set fire to cotton bales in her barn, but the blaze burns out before spreading, largely sparing Lunts property the widespread destruction suffered by neighboring plantations. Despite Lunts 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 silver, the passing Union troops raid her house and plantation and take her slaves with them. soldiers and the sleepless nights she has spent watching fires on the horizon. While she worries about the arrival of Shermans troops and their habit of pillaging and burning everything in their path, she records stories of visits by local raiders posing as U.S.
Thomas Burge) Book Synopsis Dolly Sumner Lunt begins her diary, A Womans Wartime Journal, published in 1918, by recalling her anxiety about the approach of General Shermans Union army on January 1, 1864. About the Book Womans Wartime Journal: An Account of the Passage over Georgias Plantation of Shermans Army on the March to the Sea, as Recorded in the Diary of Dolly Sumner Lunt (Mrs.
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