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![General Sherman’s Account of Southern Women:
Violence found a new battlefield when it reached out to the women who tried to protect their homes, families, and their lives. Union troops invaded the South and were met by hostile women. Union General William T. Sherman, who was responsible for a great deal of the pillage, wrote of the women he encountered. He witnessed a land left to women and children who had been “bred in luxury, beautiful and accomplished, begging in one breath for the soldier’s ration and in another praying that the Almighty… [would] come and kill us, the despoilers of their homes and all that is sacred.”. Many diary entries recorded the decimation inflicted by Sherman’s wrath. He and other Union men were responsible for the burning, looting, and depredation that drove many Southern women from their homes; their safe sphere. Accounts were written of plantations burned and of food and valuables stolen or ruined. Sarah Morgan disclosed an instance of Yankees who shelled her home. Everything was gone and the Morgans were left with nothing. She called it “deviltry” on the part of the Yankees who tended to treat the ruination of their homes and goods as “sport” as they wasted the land. Read More: http://www.loyno.edu/~history/journal/1997-8/Matherne.html
“Unidentified woman, half length portrait, seated with arm on table.” Sixth-plate daguerreotype by James Presley Ball](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc6e5o1jb81rd3evlo1_500.jpg)
General Sherman’s Account of Southern Women:
Violence found a new battlefield when it reached out to the women who tried to protect their homes, families, and their lives. Union troops invaded the South and were met by hostile women. Union General William T. Sherman, who was responsible for a great deal of the pillage, wrote of the women he encountered. He witnessed a land left to women and children who had been “bred in luxury, beautiful and accomplished, begging in one breath for the soldier’s ration and in another praying that the Almighty… [would] come and kill us, the despoilers of their homes and all that is sacred.”. Many diary entries recorded the decimation inflicted by Sherman’s wrath. He and other Union men were responsible for the burning, looting, and depredation that drove many Southern women from their homes; their safe sphere. Accounts were written of plantations burned and of food and valuables stolen or ruined. Sarah Morgan disclosed an instance of Yankees who shelled her home. Everything was gone and the Morgans were left with nothing. She called it “deviltry” on the part of the Yankees who tended to treat the ruination of their homes and goods as “sport” as they wasted the land. Read More: http://www.loyno.edu/~history/journal/1997-8/Matherne.html
“Unidentified woman, half length portrait, seated with arm on table.” Sixth-plate daguerreotype by James Presley Ball
