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 MorganFrontispiece
From a daguerreotype in the possession of the family.
Miriam Morgan64
From a daguerreotype in the possession of the family.
James Morris Morgan114
From a daguerreotype in the possession of the family.
Facsimile of a Page of the Diary150
Sarah Fowler192
Sully's portrait of Mrs. Morgan.
Linwood236
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 Morgan308
On Church Street, Baton Rouge, La., now the property of St. Joseph Academy, and used as an annex.
Judge Thomas Gibbes Morgan346
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 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