The bitterness which marked the closing chapter of the Civil War is on full display in the November 28, 1864, diary entries of a South Carolina woman, a New York lawyer, and a Union officer as Sherman rampaged through Georgia on his March to the Sea.

On November 28, 1864, Atlanta lay in ashes and its people were gone.
Union Gen. Sherman’s army had occupie…
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