Nearly half a century after General William Tecumseh Sherman marched through their town with 60,000 Union troops, feelings were still raw among some of the women of Fayetteville, North Carolina. They wrote this brief, true account of their memories as young women and girls, watching the dream of the Confederacy turn to ashes before their eyes. A privileged set, these women experienced hardships they never imagined they would but they persevered. And they never forgave Sherman. A rare account of one important town in the south during the closing days of the American Civil War.