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Twenty-three-year-old Linda Vaghar was also ordered to repay all of her victims a total of $17,175 in restitution, and she is barred from leaving the state of Massachusetts until the payments are made, said Middlesex District Attorney (D.A.) spokeswoman Melissa Sherman. The court also ordered Vaghar to undergo treatment for substance abuse and a mental health evaluation...
This time the story begins in the autumn of 1864. The intricate and troubled General William Tecumseh Sherman is leading 60,000 Union troops on his devastating final campaign of the Civil War. To demoralize the South, the seditious countryside of Georgia and the Carolinas is being deliberately humbled. Sherman's foraging parties are smashing the crockery of rich planters and making off with livestock and whiskey. Hundreds of slaves--men, women and children--are deserting their defeated masters and attaching themselves as refugees to Sherman's advancing army. "On the march," one character tells...
...rules of survival require. Pearl is a half-caste slave girl shrewdly contemplating the horizons of her new freedom while serving for a while in the disguise of a Union drummer boy. Her former mistress Mattie Jameson is now a grief-crazed Confederate widow swept along with Sherman's forces. The far better-composed Emily Thompson, the daughter of a Georgia judge, rediscovers herself as a Union battlefield nurse while falling pointlessly in love with the coldly brilliant field surgeon Wrede Sartorius...
...Staff writer Natalie I. Sherman can be reached at nsherman@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Natalie I. Sherman can be reached at nsherman@fas.harvard.edu...