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

The diary records a Southern plantation woman's day-to-day experiences during the Civil War as Union troops pass through her region, presenting dated entries that mix immediate incidents—cannon, fleeing neighbors, and burned fields—with practical accounts of hiding food, valuables, and animals. It notes soaring prices and shortages, domestic labor and interactions with enslaved people, visitors and refugees, and moments of fear and endurance. The narrative alternates vivid landscape and household detail with reflective passages on community disruption and the effort to preserve family and property.