The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865

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In the fall of 1864 General Sherman and his army cut a ruinous swath across Georgia, and outraged Southerners steeled themselves for defeat. Threatened by the approach of the Union army, young Eliza Frances Andrews and her sister Metta fled from their home in Washington, Georgia, to comparative safety within the southwestern a part of the state. The daughter of a prominent pass judgement on who disapproved of secession, Eliza kept a diary that fully registers the anger and despair of Confederate citizens throughout the last months of the Civil War.
 
Traveling across Georgia, Eliza observes Sherman’s devastation. A full of life social life is maintained at her eldest sister’s plantation, where she and Metta take refuge, but Eliza’s sense of doom is clear. Rumors are rife—the fall of Richmond, the give up of General Lee, the approaching approach of the Yankees. On returning to the circle of relatives home, she sees the Old South crumble before her eyes.

 
The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl depicts the chaos and tumult of a period when invaders and freed slaves swarmed within the streets, starved and beaten soldiers asked for food at houses with little or none, and currency used to be worthless. Eliza’s agony is complicated by political differences together with her beloved father. Edited and first published nearly a half century after the Civil War, her diary is a passionate firsthand record.

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