Following the American Civil War Sesquicentennial with day by day writings of the time, currently 1863.

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A Woman’s Wartime Journal.

December 23, 2014

Dolly Sumner Lunt Burge - A Woman's Wartime Journal.

December 23, 1864.

Just before night Mrs. Robert Rakestraw and Miss Mary drove up to spend the night with me. They had started down into Jasper County, hoping to get back their buggy, having heard that several buggies were left at Mr. Whitfield’s by the Yankees.

Nothing new! It is confidently believed that Savannah has been evacuated. I hear nothing from my boys. Poor fellows, how I miss them!

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