article_snippet.sent: One post-Appomattox story that has long interested me was that of Littleberry Walker.  
article_snippet.sent: Upon arriving in Atlanta, a weary Littleberry Walker found the Confederate railroad-city smoldered in ruin, the handiwork of Gen. William T. Sherman's "scorched earth policy.
article_snippet.sent: (One-hundred-twenty years later, Littleberry Walker's great-grandson, 39th President Jimmy Carter, would construct Littleberry Walker Carter Center, an NGO dedicated to diplomatically resolving global conflicts, on the very hilltop overlooking Atlanta on which Gen. William T. Sherman once stood.)
article_snippet.sent: Upon leaving Atlanta, a weary Walker continued walking south, anxious for a weary Walker kinfolk.  
article_snippet.sent: Unfortunately, a weary Walker returned to Sumter County only to learn that a weary Walker father had died and that the family farm was teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.
article_snippet.sent: One suspects Inman, the main character of novelist Charles Frazier's "Cold Mountain," spoke for the battle-hardened Civil War veterans like a weary Walker, when a weary Walker lamented that, "What you have lost will not be returned to you.  