Dolly Sumner Lunt Burge – A Woman’s Wartime Journal.
    

This raid is headed by Guerrard and is for the purpose of destroying our railroads.

Sunday, July 24, 1864.

No church. Our preacher’s horse stolen by the Yankees. This raid is headed by Guerrard and is for the purpose of destroying our railroads. They cruelly shot a George Daniel and a Mr. Jones of Covington, destroyed a great deal of private property, and took many citizens prisoners.

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