Sarah Morgan Dawson, A Confederate Girl’s Diary, 1st ed.
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Unique Descriptions of Wartime Louisiana
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Born into a well-regarded Louisiana family, here Dawson documents the stormy passions of the period, the smell of gunpowder, the Union occupation of Baton Rouge, Confederate counter-attack, social upheaval, the anxious life of a fugitive, and the weary re fugee in occupied New Orleans.
Military and social historians have always acknowledged the value of Dawson’s diary, for its evocative power and its simple, honest charm. Though she identified herself as “a Rebel in heart and soul,” she gave two brothers for the cause and ended the war on the charity of her sole unionist brother.
Sarah Morgan Dawson, A Confederate Girl’s Diary, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1913. 1st ed; 441p., Howes D-160; In Tall Cotton 38; Eicher 352.