112 Ten Years of my Life. 



unarmed, they were hanged or shot. For centuries war had 

 not been carried on in such a nnanner, but it was successful. 

 The North, infatuated by political fanaticism, applauded, and 

 Sherman was the great hero of the war. I do not envy such 

 glory, great general as he may be. 



All public buildings in Atlanta were burnt and destroyed by 

 means of gunpowder. Of the once elegant private houses 

 nothing remained but the blackened chimneys. Only a few 

 old houses in the suburbs had been spared, because they were 

 used by Federals, and some new light ones had been built 

 since then. It was a sad sight, and on looking on it one could 

 scarcely believe that the remaining inhabitants of that country 

 would ever become reconciled to their Northern conquerors. 



General Sherman had promised to make my husband com- 

 mander of the whole district. This was a very honourable 

 position, but at the same time a very difficult one, requiring 

 much energy and tact. 



Salm and I could not at once find a house, and we stayed a 

 few days in that of a relative of a la.^y who had come over 

 with us from Dalton, and who was anxious to secure the good 

 graces of the new commander. On the loth of July, however, 

 we found a very nice little cottage, in which Salm established 

 his head-quarters after General Win slow had surrendered to 

 him the command of the place. 



•We remained in Atlanta until October, and time passed 

 very agreeably with us. My brother-in-law had become Pro- 

 vost-Marshal of the post, and therefore came over with my 

 sister Delia. As little Felix did not get on very well with his 

 nurse, and the doctors thought that he would be better with 

 hi? inother, I with great regret gave him up again. 



W^e had almost always visitors passing througli,, mostly 

 officers going from one part of the army to the other, and as 

 there was no hotel in Atlanta their comrades in the town had 

 to accommodate them as best they could. In regard to pro- 

 visions, we were at first very badly ofi", for the few country 

 people in the district who had something to sell did not venture 

 to bring their products to market for fear of being badly treated 

 by the soldiers, as happened ^now and then. The Union 

 soldiers were supercilious, and the southern people full of 

 hatred towards them, and though prudence advised them to 

 be cautious in their expressions, they often gave way to their 



