'Ware Sherman

About this book

Here for the first time is presented in its entirety the Journal that was Professor LeConte's one contribution to literature and not science. It tells a true story--a narration of adventures, for the most part jotted down on scraps of paper in the very midst of dangers and hair-breadth 'scapes. Two wartime experiences are vividly set forth: the first, Professor LeConte's successful attempt to reach his sister's plantation below Savannah just as Sherman's army was concluding its "march to the sea"; and the second, his unsuccessful attempt to move his household treasures to safety from Columbia. As soon as he returned home, he corrected the rough draft of the Journal, transferred it to a notebook, and pasted in at the proper places the pen sketches which he had made on the spot. The original sketches, just as he drew them, have been used for the illustration of the present book. His daughter Caroline has added on an "Introductory Reminiscence," linking the older time with ours; there is an editorial preface; and the book has an index of all the persons mentioned in the Journal.