A Confederate Girl's Diary

Sarah Morgan Dawson

History

HardPress Limited

<p>Sarah Morgan Dawson lived on a Louisiana plantation during the American Civil War and recorded her thoughts and feelings about the loss of friends killed in battle and the occupation of her home by Union troops.</p>

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

eBooksOnDisk.com

<p>"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 talking with my mother of North and South, and had alluded to the engagement between the Essex and the Arkansas, on the Mississippi, as a brilliant victory for the Federal navy. My mother protested, at once; said that she and her sister Miriam, and several friends, had been witnesses, from the levee, to the fact that the Confederates had fired and abandoned their own ship when the machinery broke down, after two shots had been exchanged: the Federals, cautiously turning the point, had then captured but a smoking hulk."</p>

A Confederate Girl's Diary (Esprios Classics)

Blurb

The Civil War, the most dramatic moment in this nation's history, also produced some of our greatest literature. From tragic charges to prison escapes to the desolation wrought on those who stayed behind, Blood is an extraordinary collection of reminiscences, fiction, and excerpts from diaries and letters by an array of soldiers, writers and observers that includes Abraham Lincoln, General George Pickett, Walt Whitman, Ulysses S. Grant and Stephen Crane. * Audie Award winner.

Blood: Stories of Life and Death From The Civil War (Adrenaline)

Ulysses S. Grant

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Walt, Whitman

Abraham, Lincoln

John, McElroy

Stephen, Crane

George Pickett

Lt. Colonel W.W. Blackford

George T. Stevens

William T. Sherman

Adeline Grey

Americas

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