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Sarah Morgan Dawson

Born

in New Orleans, Louisiana, The United States

February 28, 1842

Died

May 05, 1909

Genre

Biographies & Memoirs, Diaries, History

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Nineteenth-century Louisiana writer Sarah Morgan Dawson is best known for the diary she kept during the Civil War. From March 1862 until April 1865, Dawson chronicled her thoughts and experiences, providing one of the most detailed accounts of civilian life in wartime Louisiana. A gifted storyteller, Dawson recorded her feelings about the Confederacy, war, politics, refugee life, and women’s place in society against the backdrop of Louisiana’s invasion and occupation by Union troops.

Though Dawson originally asked that her six-volume diary be destroyed upon her death, she later willed it to her son Warrington. In 1913, he arranged to have the first four volumes published as A Confederate Girl’s Diary. The diary was later edited by Charles Ea ...more

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Average rating: 3.83 · 946 ratings · 97 reviews · 22 distinct works • Similar authors

	Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary Of A Southern Woman by Sarah Morgan Dawson, Charles East 3.90 avg rating — 543 ratings — published 1913 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Confederate Girl's Diary 3.74 avg rating — 403 ratings — 179 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blood: Stories of Life and Death From The Civil War by Ulysses S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman 3.80 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2000 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Correspondence of Sarah Morgan and Francis Warrington Dawson, with Selected Editorials Written by Sarah Morgan for the Charleston News and Courier by Sarah Morgan Dawson, Francis Warrington Dawson, Giselle Roberts (Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Women in War - 20 Civil War Memoirs & Biographies: Diaries, Nursing Recollections, and Diverse Women's Voices from the American Civil War by Sara Agnes Rice Pryor, Louisa May Alcott, Eliza Frances Andrews it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Morgan's War: Volume 1 - A Confederate Girl's Story it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Confederate Girl's Diary: Baton Rouge, Port Hudson and Occupied New Orleans, 1862–1865 (Annotated) by Sarah Morgan Dawson, Michael Bergbauer (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unarmed Witness: 30 Accounts of Civil War Behind the Lines: Civilian Diaries, Nursing Memoirs, and Home-Front Testimony from the American Civil War by Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, Adam Gurowski 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Turmoil Within: 10 Personal Diaries of the Civil War: The Wartime Journal of a Georgia Girl, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, My Diary - North and South, My Cave Life in Vicksburg by Lawrence Van Alstyne, Mary Ann Loughborough, Adam Gurowski 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hidden Heroes: 30 Tales of Aid and Survival in Civil War America by Mary Rhodes Waring Henagan, Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“came in to ask for molasses. I was alone downstairs, and the nervous trepidation”
― Sarah Morgan Dawson, A Confederate Girl's Diary

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“helpless and bleeding in the street, I would”
― Sarah Morgan Dawson, A Confederate Girl's Diary

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“CONFEDERATE GIRL'S DIARY By”
― Sarah Morgan Dawson, A Confederate Girl's Diary

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