![]() Despite Burge'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 silver, the passing Union troops raid her house and plantation, taking her slaves with them. ![]() soldiers and the sleepless nights she has spent watching fires on the horizon. While she worries over 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. Burge managed the affairs of the plantation herself during the Civil War.īurge begins her diary, A Woman's Wartime Journal, published in 1918, by voicing her anxiety about the approach of General Sherman's Northern army on January 1, 1864. Her husband passed away in 1858, and Mrs. While teaching school in the area, Lunt met and married Thomas Burge, and she settled into life on his plantation. Although she was related to the fierce abolitionist, Charles Sumner, she moved south to Covington, Georgia to join her recently married sister. ![]() ![]() Dolly Sumner Lunt was born in Bowdoinham, Maine in 1817. ![]()
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