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Sarah Morgan Dawson


Born
in New Orleans, Louisiana, The United States
February 28, 1842

Died
May 05, 1909

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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
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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

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

“CONFEDERATE GIRL'S DIARY By”
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