"The Diary of Dolly Lunt Burge" is the compelling story of an
ordinary woman rising to meet extraordinary challenges in
nineteenth-century Georgia. Dolly Lunt Burge's full life was
remarkable for the range of roles she filled and the variety of her
experiences. That her life coincided with critical transformations
in America and that she recorded her experiences within this
historical context make her diary all the more noteworthy.
Burge moved from Maine to Georgia with her physician husband in
the 1840s. By the time she began her diary at age thirty, Dolly had
lost her husband and her only living child to illness. A devout and
self-sufficient schoolteacher, she soon married again, to Thomas
Burge, a planter and widowed father of four. Upon her second
husband's death in 1858, Dolly independently ran the plantation,
located in Mansfield. She remained there during the Civil War,
witnessing Sherman's famous march through the area. Dolly married a
third and final time, in 1866, to Rev. William Parks, a prominent
Methodist minister. Through it all, Dolly recorded the changes in
her life and her country, describing her surroundings, friends,
family, and feelings in thoughtful, moving language.
Originally published in part as "A Woman's Wartime Journal: An
Account of Sherman's Devastation of a Southern Plantation" (1918),
this journal was published in its entirety in 1962. This full
version, first published in 1997 and based on a new transcription
from the original manuscript, incorporates the relevant scholarship
of the intervening decades. It also draws on extensive census and
probate records, includes additional family photographs, and offers
expanded genealogical information on the African Americans from the
Burge plantation.
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