Mary Ann Harris Gay lived with her mother in Decatur, Georgia, and here recalls the war years from secession to defeat. She describes aiding Confederate soldiers, the fear and hardship of Sherman’s Atlanta campaign, the Federal occupation of her town and the bleak aftermath, written from an unreconstructed Southern point of view.
A vivid first-hand civilian account of the Atlanta campaign, best read as a record of how Confederate women remembered the war. Download the free EPUB.