A Confederate Girl's Diary

Dawson, Sarah Morgan

A Louisiana Civil War Memoir of Union Occupation, Exile, and the Southern Home Front

12,10 €

ISBN: 9788028331948

Breite: 15,2 cm

Höhe: 22,9 cm

Gewicht: 259 g

Produktinformationen "A Confederate Girl's Diary"

A Confederate Girl's Diary is a vivid Civil War journal that records, with unusual immediacy, the collapse of the slaveholding South as experienced by a young woman in Louisiana. Moving between Baton Rouge, occupied New Orleans, and places of refuge, the diary combines domestic detail, political observation, religious reflection, and sharp social portraiture. Its literary force lies in its candid, novelistic voice: passionate, ironic, often partisan, yet alert to fear, displacement, and moral uncertainty within Confederate society. Sarah Morgan Dawson, born Sarah Morgan in New Orleans in 1842, belonged to a prominent Southern family whose fortunes were shattered by war. She began the diary as a teenager and continued it through years of invasion, bereavement, exile, and social upheaval. Her education, class position, and proximity to military occupation gave her both access to significant events and a deeply personal stake in their meaning, shaping a testimony at once intimate and historically revealing. This book is recommended to readers seeking more than a battlefield history of the Civil War. Dawson's diary illuminates how war entered parlors, sickrooms, streets, and consciences, especially for women expected to endure silently. It is essential for students of Southern literature, women's life writing, and Civil War memory.

Eigenschaften "A Confederate Girl's Diary"

Format:	Taschenbuch / Softcover
Thema/BIC:	Amerikanische Geschichte, Memoiren, Berichte, Erinnerungen
Verlag:	Sharp Ink

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