The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-07-24
R WOMEN IN THE WAR.
SHERMAN IN GEORGIA.
DAY AND NIGHT OF HORROR.
Nora W. Canning, of Macon, Co., i
C2nrlesl0M IHeekAY News.

a S0yI VI. Canning, OF Macon, Co., in
q Charleston Weekly Ne,rs.
ate in August. 1861, my husband,
iyc IL, was called to his planta.
6 Ia Jefferson County, Ga, end we left
g home in the beautiful City of Macon
Z Inc care of faithful servants, intending
he absent about two weeks.
IN arriving at the plantation we found
Srytbing in confusi IN, the oyerseer
ing been "conscripted," and as there
= no one left to attend to the business
81 had to remain there until another
rseer could be procured. In the
aA4,niime, Atlanta having been evacuat-
by our army, we thought the City of
.acon would certainly fall into tie
sn,y's hands, and, sharing the fate of
Lanta and other Southern cities, be
stned TO the ground. 1t being impossi-
&, for Judge IL to leave the pIanta-
Va, | returned to Macon and packed all
Il yauables and such things rs we
2uld need in country home if our
me in the city should be destroyed,
n returned to Jefferson County, not
Gaming that twelve miles from rail.
Id we would ever see Yankee soldier,
lch less a Yankee army. Unfortu-
Z sely my trunks were very heavy, and
4 negro man who lifted them cut OF
s. wagon that brought them from the
:siion, noticed it and said: "iii Mis.
ge you must have heap of gold and
,ger in desc here trunks; dey feels
achty heavy" / made some remark
but having some china and glassware
them for the table and thought moth
8 more of it. Indeed, we felt perfect
& secure and thought we would not be
solestel way down. in the Ogeechee
amp :" but, alas we were soreIy disap.
Einted in our calculations.
bout the oath of November we heard
at Sherman's army were in possession
. Milledgeville and were on their way
Savannah, burning and destroying
srything in their course, and our home
ing directly on the wagon road from
lledgeville to Savannah we, of course,
pected them to lay everything in ashes
St they could find. A few days after.
'5d we could hear of Kiipatrick's cav.
u all around US, and see the heavens
Eliminated at night with the glare of
fning gin. houses and other buildings.
could hear of houses being pillaged
s. old men being beaten almost to death
be made to tell where their money and
asures were concealed. All these tales
horror we heard, and deeply sympa-
zed with the sufferers, expecting every
lur to see the cavalry ride up and treat
in the same manner. But to our great
/ they passed us, coming no nearer
an six miles, and when they had pass-
We hoped the main army would do the
ne. We thought it best, however, to
+e such precaution to conceal our stock
as to prevent them being found if
by should make us a visit, and stock.
.es were built in the dense swamp of
p Ogeechee, impenetrable, as we
ought, to any one not acquainted with
p surroundings.
PREPARING FOR THE DEsTRoYERs.
For several days squads of Confederate
syalry, Wheeler's command, would pass
d tell us where Sherman's army were
ID of the depredations they were com.
atting, and warn us TO prepare foT the
9rst as they were showing no mercy,
id on Sunday, the 29th of November,
J heard that the destroyers were en-.
,mped just above our upper plantation,
Sout four miles from our home. That
ght the heavens looked as if they were
fire from the glare of hundreds of
lrning houses, and early Monday morn.
g a negro man came from the upper
antation and told US they were crossing
p river and that some of them were in
puisville, about two miles off; also that
ey were searching the houses, breaking
iened the stores aud setting fire to them,
ID killing all the stock they could find.
? proposed to hide a number of hams
had hanging up in the smokehouse-
nere we had bten making salt by leach
g the dirt from the earthen fioor-aud
I gladly accepted tbs proposition. he
9scordingly- dug down about two feet,
i'd plank at the bottom of the excaya.
sn and placed the hams on them, COW
ing them up securely and putting syrup
!rrels over ..the{place. I told tn cook
prepare enough food to last US several
lys. as We would not be able to have
'ything cooked while the Yankees were
the place. We also gave the negroes
months rations, thinking they would
better able to keep it than we would.
That morning Mira. s., the over.
FRS wife and myself had gone into the
pods and buried my valuables. Judge
= was in the swamp at the time,
wing the stock put in the stockade and
fning the fattening hogs out in the
amp thinking they would be less liza
2 to e killed running at large. He
70 his watch with. him, When he came
;ck to the house, I got ihe watch from
20, and gave it to Mrs. S. with the
quest that she would hide it in some
70 place. .,Nho
About noon, just as we were ready to
down to dinner, o little negro boy
me running in half.breathless from
a'Marster," he cried, "dey's coming
svn de lane"
PWho is coming" asked his master.
1.-Two white mans wild blue coats on"
little negro answered.
sHe left tho dining room and looked
3. Instead. of ".two white men with
fe COATS" we. saw about o dozen at the
gro houses, talking to the negroes.
husband went ont and two of them
ne up and spoke very politely to him,
gEing If he could let them have some.
gng to eat. They. said they wanted
ne Hour end were willing to pay for
sat they got. They looked around the
s,ntry and smokehouse and one of them
Ia: lyon had better have those pro.
pions carried into your house; some of
! men are not very particular to ask
what they want" while another
|sred to take down some pieces of meat
hs were hanging up In the smokehouse
= oring them into ths house for me. /
gsn 70 think they were not 30 bad after
|, put soon had reason TO change my.
|sWotor'1Ha DoWs LIKE vuLTunEs.
IVY we hardly got the meat inside the
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