Ebook {Epub PDF} Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary Of A Southern Woman by Sarah Morgan Dawson

9 rows · Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary Of A Southern Woman Touchstone book: Author: Sarah 3/5(5).  · On one level she (Sarah Morgan) is identifying herself as a loyal Southerner not, to be sure, one of the noisy "Patriot women" she despisesbut her diary makes unmistakably clear that she was a rebel in other ways that mattered. Summary of A Confederate Girl's Diary. Sarah Morgan Dawson was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on Febru to Judge Thomas Gibbes Morgan and his second wife, Sarah Hunt Fowler Morgan. She spent her early childhood in New Orleans until Judge Morgan relocated the family to Baton Rouge in Although Sarah received less than a full year of formal schooling, she followed a .

Sarah Morgan married Frank Dawson in , an editor and widower. He insisted she write for his publications. She moved to Charleston, South Carolina. Frank was murdered in a personal conflict with a doctor in She lived out her life in Paris where she died in East, Charles, Editor, Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary of a Southern Woman. Sarah Morgan's diary gives us a unique look at the Civil War, and an opportunity to understand the social values of the day and how it affected women. The first book I've read from the Confederate point of view, it helps me understand the resentment that still lingers in parts of the South today. Sarah Morgan Dawson, Unidentified. N ineteenth-century Louisiana writer Sarah Morgan Dawson is best known for the diary she kept during the Civil War. From March until April , Dawson chronicled her thoughts and experiences, providing one of the most detailed accounts of civilian life in wartime Louisiana.

The war over, Sarah Morgan knitted together the threads of her torn life and faced her present, in preparation for whatever the future might hold. In South Carolina, under Reconstruction, she met a young Englishman, Captain Francis Warrington Dawson, who had left his home in London to fight for a cause where his chivalrous nature saw right threatened by might. Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary Of A Southern Woman Touchstone book: Author: Sarah. Sarah Morgan’s diary describes the events of the Civil War witnessed by and understood through the eyes of a nineteen-year-old girl. Her diary joins the testimonies and diaries of others during the war, such as Mary Chesnut’s published diary. However, unlike Mary Chesnut, who was twenty years older and more political, Sarah Morgan captures the emotion and sometimes contradictory feelings of young woman during the war.