Dawson, Sarah Morgan

Sarah Morgan : the Civil War diary of a southern woman / edited by Charles East - xli, 626 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sarah Morgan herself emerges as one of the most memorable nineteenth-century women in fiction or nonfiction, a young woman of intelligence and fortitude, as well as of high spirits and passion, who questioned the society into which she was born and the meaning of the war for ordinary families like her own and for the divided nation as a whole.

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Dawson, Sarah Morgan, 1842-1909 --Diaries


Louisiana--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives

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