Timeline
Lifetime:
1842 -
1909
Passed: ≈
115 years ago
Title
Author
Country/Nationality
United States
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
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...