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Beautiful, brilliant, opinionated, and very witty, 21-year-old Sarah Morgan began a diary in 1862 to chronicle the effects of war upon her family and friends. Throughout the diary, you see a young, self-aware woman both fascinated and appalled by what she saw during four years... Read Full Overview

Born into one of the best families of Baton Rouge, Sarah Morgan was not yet twenty when she began her diary in January 1862, nine months after the start of the Civil War. She was soon to experience a coming-of-age filled with the turmoil and upheaval that devastated the wartime... Read Full Overview

The author, a native of Baton Rogue, Lousiana, records her experiences as a young lady living in the Confederacy during the War Between the States. The war divided her family when her eldest brother decided to remain loyal to the Union and three of her other brothers accepted... Read Full Overview

A Confederate Girl's Diary is a memoir written by Sarah Morgan Dawson, a young woman who lived in Louisiana during the American Civil War. The book is a compilation of diary entries that Dawson wrote between 1862 and 1865, chronicling her experiences during the war. The entries... Read Full Overview

A Confederate Girl's Diary by Sarah Morgan Dawson It is perhaps due to a chance conversation, held some seventeen years ago in New York, that this Diary of the Civil War was saved from destruction. A Philadelphian had been talking with my mother of North and South, and had alluded... Read Full Overview

A Confederate Girl's Diary is a historical memoir written by Sarah Morgan Dawson, a young woman who lived in Louisiana during the American Civil War. The book is a personal account of her experiences and observations during the war, which lasted from 1861 to 1865. The diary covers... Read Full Overview

A Confederate Girl's Diary is a historical non-fiction book written by Sarah Morgan Dawson and published in 1913. The book is a personal account of the author's experiences during the American Civil War. Sarah Morgan Dawson was a young girl living in Louisiana during the war... Read Full Overview