The War Time Journal of a Georgia Girl: Illustrated and Annotated - Softcover

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The civil war in Georgia is coming to an end. Sherman left the devastation in its wake and the Union prisoners died in Andersonville. The whole society is crumbling.In the midst of this turmoil, a twenty-four-year-old girl traveling with her sister through Georgia. In this fascinating and significant work, Fanny Andrews paints a persistent picture of the difficulties and sufferings of the inner front during a war.The War Time Journal of a Georgia Girl takes us back to find visits and gossip, hate and love, play games and fight people a hundred years ago.We see the civil war in Georgia through the eyes of a young woman who witnessed the collapse of her beloved Confederacy in 1865, and in the eyes of the same woman, now the "gray-haired publisher," who looked soberly at the rebellious girl half a century ago.Miss Andrew's style is both literate and intimate, and she demonstrates an uncommon understanding of the problems caused by the conflict: "poor and black people are the real victims of war."Every woman and every student of civil war literature will find this book frank in emotions and attitudes. In the fall of 1864, General Sherman and his army broke through the destructive zone throughout Georgia and infuriated the Southerners, who began to prepare for defeat. Frightened by the approaching Union Army, young Eliza Francis Andrews and her sister Metta fled their home in Washington, GA, for comparative safety in the southwestern part of the state. Daughter of a well-known judge, who did not approve of the separation, Eliza kept a diary, which fully recorded the anger and despair of the citizens of the Confederacy in the last months of the civil war. Traveling through Georgia, Eliza witnesses the devastation of Sherman A lively social life is kept at the plantation of her older sister, where she and Metta are hiding, but Elisa's sense of condemnation is clear. Rumors are common - the fall of Richmond, the capitulation of General Lee, the inevitable approach of the Yankees. Returning to the family home, she sees that the Old South is collapsing in her eyes.The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl depicts the chaos and turmoil of the period when invaders and freed slaves invaded the streets, hungry and ill-treated soldiers ordered food in homes with little or no money, and money was useless. Eliza's torment is complicated by political disagreements with her beloved father. Edited and published for the first time nearly half a century after the Civil War, her diary is a passionate first-hand record.

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