Saturday, Nov. 12. We were [frightened] almost to death
last night. Some mean soldiers set several houses on fire
in different parts of the town. I could not go to sleep for
fear that they would set our house on fire. We all [dread]
the next few days to come for they said that they would
set the last house on fire if they had to leave this place.
Sun. Nov. 13. The federal soldiers have been coming
today and burning houses and I have been looking at
them come in nearly all day.
-Carrie Berry, 1864
This passage mainly describes how Union soldiers
O destroyed mills and other factories.
O burned buildings as they left the city.
O sent women and children to the North.
O used a total war strategy to win the war.
Done