ConfederateGirl


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Carrie Barry and her family lived in Georgia, part of the Confederate South, during the Civil War. She describes what her family experienced during the war. She talks about shells (gunpowder-filled containers fired from a cannon, which exploded when they hit) falling near her home, and tells of staying awake all night when General Sherman burned the city of Atlanta. Carrie was ten years old when she started her journal.
 * Background:**

I knit all the morning. In the evening we had to run to Auntie's and get in the cellar. We did not feel safe in our cellar, the shells fell so thick and fast.
 * ENTRY ONE **
 * //Aug. 5, 1864//**

We have had to stay in the cellar all day, the shells have been falling so thick around the house. Two have fallen in the garden, but none of us were hurt. Cousin Henry Beatty came in and wanted us to move, he thought we were in danger, but we will try a little longer.
 * //August 9//**

We had shells all night. There was a large piece came through Mama's room directly after we went to bed and fell on the little bed. I expect if we had been sleeping there some of us would have been hurt.
 * //August 16//**

This has been a dreadful day. Things have been burning all around us. We dread tonight because we do not know what moment they will set our house on fire. We have had a guard a little while after dinner and we feel a little nore protected.
 * ENTRY TWO **
 * // November 15 //**

Oh, what a night we had. They came burning the store house and about night it looked like the whole town was on fire. We all set up all night. If we had not set up our house would have been burnt up for the fire was very near and the soldiers were going around setting houses on fire where they were not watched.
 * //November 16//**