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Title: A Woman's Wartime Journal
An account of the passage over a Georgia plantation of
Sherman's army on the march to the sea, as recorded in the
diary of Dolly Sumner Lunt

Author: Dolly Sumner Lunt

Annotator: Julian Street

Release Date: May 30, 2010 [EBook #32595]

Language: English

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A WOMAN'S WARTIME JOURNAL

[Illustration]

A WOMAN'S WARTIME
JOURNAL

AN ACCOUNT OF THE PASSAGE OVER A GEORGIA
PLANTATION OF SHERMAN'S ARMY ON THE
MARCH TO THE SEA, AS RECORDED
IN THE DIARY OF

DOLLY SUMNER LUNT
(Mrs. Thomas Burge)

With an Introduction and Notes by
JULIAN STREET

[Illustration]

NEW YORK
THE CENTURY CO.
1918

Copyright, 1918, by
THE CENTURY CO.

INTRODUCTION

Though Southern rural life has necessarily changed since the Civil
War, I doubt that there is in the entire South a place where it has
changed less than on the Burge Plantation, near Covington, Georgia.
And I do not know in the whole country a place that I should rather
see again in springtime--the Geor