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Sarah Morgan Dawson (1842–1909)

Autor/a de Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary of a Southern Woman

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Inclou el nom: Sarah M. (WRP) Dawson

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Data de naixement
1842-02-28
Data de defunció
1909-05-05
Lloc d'enterrament
St. Lawrence Cemetery, Charleston, South Carolina
Gènere
female
Nacionalitat
USA
Lloc de naixement
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Lloc de defunció
Paris, France
Llocs de residència
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Paris, France
Professions
diarist
journalist
short story writer
translator
Relacions
Dawson, Francis Warrington (husband)
Biografia breu
Sarah Ida Morgan was the daughter of a wealthy and influential Louisiana judge and lived a comfortable life in Baton Rouge until the outbreak of the U.S. Civil War in 1861. Her father died, one of her brothers was killed in a duel, and three other brothers joined the Confederate Army and Navy. The family was divided as her half-brother, Judge Philip Hicky Morgan, remained loyal to the Union. Sarah began keeping a diary in January 1862, at age 19. She recorded the shortages of food and household goods as a result of the Union blockade, and other experiences of the upheaval of war. After Union forces attacked Baton Rouge, Sarah, her widowed mother and sisters were forced to flee to various temporary homes until finally seeking refuge with Philip Morgan in New Orleans. Her brothers Thomas and George died of disease during the conflict. Sarah and her mother never returned to Baton Rouge. In 1872, they moved to South Carolina to live with her remaining brother James. Sarah got a job writing for the Charleston News and Courier. Two years later, she married the paper's editor, Francis Warrington Dawson, with whom she had three children. Her husband died in 1889, and Sarah earned a living writing short stories and translating French works into English. In 1899, she moved to Paris, where she lived until her death ten years later. Her son Warrington Dawson inherited her wartime journals, which comprised six volumes, and published an abridged version as A Confederate Girl's Diary (1913). The complete version finally appeared in 1991. Along with Mary Chestnut, a relative whom she never met, Sarah Morgan Dawson became one of the best known female diarists of the Civil War.

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Sarah's daily diary makes for an interesting read. She covers many day to day activities and also the war as it came to her state.
 
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WongXu | Hi ha 3 ressenyes més | Mar 26, 2014 |
I found this diary tedious and uneventful. My initial enthusiasm at reading a first hand account from the perspective of a young Confederate woman ended quickly as Ms. Morgan's work devolved into various accounts of personal relationships having little significance to the war itself. While one can appreciate the fact that she was displaced from her home by the coming war, I found it difficult to sympathize with her privileged background and complaints, e.g., of having to eat various vegetables given the lack of bountiful provisions. There are many fascinating Civil War diaries. This is not one of them.… (més)
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la2bkk | Hi ha 3 ressenyes més | Nov 20, 2013 |
I believe that any American, when reading about the American Civil War, tends to try to put their own standing as to whether Unionist or Confederate aside and look at the historical aspect of the volume. I had difficulty doing that with this book because of the apparent authenticity of the trials and tribulations of the author. This book was originally published in 1923.

The introduction to this diary was compelling stating that "No Southerner at that time could possibly have had opinions so just or foresight so clear as those here attributed to a young girl."

Sarah's adventures may have seemed a bit trivial in some cases for those of our century (collecting clothes, hiding silver), but at her time and place, she was a strong young woman who made every effort to keep her family together during the conflicts that surrounded them.
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cyderry | Hi ha 3 ressenyes més | Oct 16, 2011 |
I cannot fathom my days without Sarah in them after reading of her life for so long. Her trials, tribulations, and losses will stay with me always. She is an incredibly sharp witted young southern woman who writes magnificently. Her level of education and privilege is at once clearly understood from her writing.
This is not just some cheesy adolescent journal some girl wrote.

At times the book just goes on and on monotonously. Do not forget that the monotony you feel is the same she is expressing to you since that is what her life goes through during the war. It is like being transported in time to a place so long gone and forgotten....the Civil War and the late 1800's. It describes what life was like back then through her eyes and the divisions and sentiments of people on both sides of the divide. I was amazed at how so many families had sons fighting for both sides at once against each other.

It gives you a sense of how privileged we all are to not have experienced war on our soil in our lifetimes. I hope we never do.
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adribabe | Hi ha 3 ressenyes més | Aug 28, 2011 |

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