"There was hardly a fence left standing all the way from to . The fields were trampled down and the road was lined with carcasses of horses, hogs, and cattle that the invaders, unable either to consume or to carry away with them, had wantonly shot down to starve out the people and prevent them from making their crops. The stench in some places was unbearable; every few hundred yards we had to hold our noses or stop them with the cologne Mrs. Elzey had given us, and it proved a great boon. The dwellings that were standing all showed signs of pillage, and on every plantation we saw the charred remains of the and packing-screw, while here and there, lone chimney-stacks, " 's Sentinels," told of homes laid in ashes."
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Eliza Frances Andrews
(August 10, 1840 – January 21, 1931) was an American journalist, essayist, novelist, educator, botanist, and author of two textbooks on botany. She donated more than 3000 plant specimens that she collected with to the Alabama Department of Agriculture.
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