Sleepless nights. The report is that the Yankees have left
Covington for Macon, headed by Stoneman, to release prisoners held there. They
robbed every house on the road of its provisions, sometimes taking every piece
of meat, blankets and wearing apparel, silver and arms of every description.
They would take silk dresses and put them under their saddles, and many other
things for which they had no use. Is this the way to make us love them and
their Union? Let the poor people answer whom they have deprived of every
mouthful of meat and of their livestock to make any! Our mills, too, they have
burned, destroying an immense amount of property.
SOURCE: Dolly Lunt Burge, A Woman's Wartime Journal,
p. 9-10
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