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Title: Sherman at My Door (Annotated)

Author: Dolly Sumner Lunt

Narrator: Brian V. Hunt, Claire Dayton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-17

Publisher: Big Byte Books

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Union General William Tecumseh Sherman came right through her yard on their march to the sea in 1864, just as they had other plantations. But the widow mistress of Georgia's Burge Plantation was no typical southern belle. She was a Maine-born transplant with 100 slaves.

Here, in Dolly Sumner Lunt's own words, is a description of those days as she watched everything she had and believed in being threatened by an army she described as invaders. They took her livestock, told her slaves they were free, and asked for meals in her mansion. This fascinating glimpse into plantation life at the end of the American Civil War is unique. Every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever.

Members Reviews:

Interesting Source. on the Georgia Homefront

This would have gotten 5 stars had it not been for the "editors" often snarky comments & the omission of many entries from 1865. We are left w/ the information that there were many entries on soldier's homecomings & more stories of straggling Yankee bummers pestering the traumatized citizens after the war. This lady was a kind & caring slaveowners, sharing what little she had with her people. No one was ever abused, & they remained with her & cried when the Yankees took her male slaves(who also cried)because they didn't want to go away from home. An important read for the politically correct; for the serious historian, a fine source.