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Lifetime: 1842 - 1909 Passed: ≈ 115 years ago

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Sarah Morgan Dawson

American writer Sarah Morgan Dawson is best known for her Civil War diary, A Confederate Girl's Diary. Born and raised in Louisiana, Dawson captured her thoughts and experiences of the Union occupation of her home state in diary entries from March 1862 to April 1865.

Books by Sarah Morgan Dawson

A Confederate Girl's Diary  Cover image

A Confederate Girl's Diary

Memoir War
Family Slavery Military Loyalty Cruelty Conflict

Sarah Morgan Dawson was a young woman of 20 living in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, when she began this diary. The American Civil War was raging. Though at first the conflict seemed far away, it would eventually be brought home to her in very personal term...