Dolly Sumner Lunt

  • Dolly's friend Major Ansley, is wounded in the Battle of Missionary Ridge and he is not getting better.

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  • Dolly writes about the raiders in Social Circle.(a near by town) they burned buildings around the Depot there

  • Garrard's raid in Covington, GA where he burned a depot, a new hospital center, over 2000 bales of cotton, animals, and burned 2000 bales of cotton.

  • Report that the Yankess had left Covington for Macon, it was headed by Stoneman, to relese prisoners that were held there.

  • Yankees come to her house. They also have a prisoner with them. They stayed at her house and made her do stuff for them. After they left, they took some of her animals.

  • Some people from Major General Joseph Wheeler came to Dolly's house asking if she had seen their army pass.

  • November 8th would decide the fate of the Confederacy if Lincoln was reelected.

  • Dolly went to Covington to pay a Confederate tax.

  • Union soldiers raid confederate homes, steal things from them, sleep in their homes.

  • Sherman raids Dolly's plantation. They steal and kill her livestock, take her slaves, wreck her garens and burn her buildings.

  • Dolly heard that Savannah had been evacuated. 10,000 confederate soldiers defending it.

  • During christmas, Dolly and her slaves were sad. There were not presents for anyone. Dolly was sad because her family wasn't with her. It was sad for everyone.

  • Dolly hears that General Lee surrendered to General Grant in Appomattox on April 9th.

  • Dolly writes about the month of April 1865 will never be forgotten. five day after General Lee surrendered, President Lincoln was assassinated.

  • Dolly had company at her house everyday of the week. The soldiers were finding their way back home after the war ended.

  • Dolly writes about God and thanks him for blessing her during the war.