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Title: A Confederate Girl's Diary

Author: Sarah Morgan Dawson

Release Date: April 5, 2008 [EBook #25004]

Language: English

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A CONFEDERATE GIRL'S DIARY

[Illustration: SARAH FOWLER MORGAN]

A CONFEDERATE GIRL'S DIARY

By

SARAH MORGAN DAWSON

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
WARRINGTON DAWSON
AND WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1913

COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY WARRINGTON DAWSON

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

_Published September 1913_

TO

THOSE WHO ENDURED AND FORGAVE

ILLUSTRATIONS

SARAH FOWLER MORGAN _Frontispiece_

From a daguerreotype in the possession of the family.

MIRIAM MORGAN 64

From a daguerreotype in the possession of the family.

JAMES MORRIS MORGAN 114

From a daguerreotype in the possession of the family.

FACSIMILE OF A PAGE OF THE DIARY 150

SARAH FOWLER 192

Sully's portrait of Mrs. Morgan.

LINWOOD 236

Built by General A. G. Carter in 1848, now the home of his
grandson, Howell Morgan. This was a Spanish grant and has
always remained in the family.

THE ANTE-BELLUM HOME OF JUDGE THOMAS GIBBES MORGAN 308

On Church Street, Baton Rouge, La., now the property of
St. Joseph Academy, and used as an annex.

JUDGE THOMAS GIBBES MORGAN 346

INTRODUCTION

It is perhaps due to a chance conversation, held some seventeen years
ago in New York, that this Diary of the Civil War was saved from
destruction.

A Philadelphian had been talki