Question

All day, as the sad moments rolled on, were they passing not only in front of my house, but from behind; they tore down my garden palings, made a road through my back-yard and lot field, driving their stock and riding through, tearing down my fences and desolating my home – wantonly1 doing it when there was no necessity for it. . . . As night drew its sable curtains around us, the heavens from every point were lit up with flames from burning buildings. Dinnerless and supperless as we were, it was nothing in comparison with the fear of being driven out homeless to the dreary woods. — A Woman's Wartime Journal by Dolly Sumner Lunt 1wantonly: deliberately cruel Which event from the Civil War is described in the text?

Answer 1

The event from the Civil War that is described in the text is that of the passage of the Sherman's Army over a Georgia plantation on the March to the Sea.

Explanation:

• The text describes the experiences that the woman is having out of her own imagination of the possible unpleasant events that may take place in the coming future due to the ongoing civil war.
• The woman is trying to describe through the journal entry how her thoughts are oscillating owing to the fear of being homeless sooner or later.