A handwritten memoir supposedly by Mary E. Buttrill (Mrs. Larkin D.) Watson of Sherman's march through the Butts County, Georgia, area where she lived as a girl on Sylvan Grove Plantation. She described the attempts her family made to find safety from the invading United States Army, the destruction of property, the actions of family slaves, and the treatment of her and her aunt Emma Manley by General George E. Spencer. The account is written in the first person, but it has not been determined whether this is an original by Mrs. Watson or a copy made by someone else as it has been used in articles in the Atlanta Journal and other newspapers. This item was found in the papers left by Eugenia Wilder at her death.