Produced by David Edwards and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) 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 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. The Philadelphian gravely corrected her; history, it appeared, had consecrated, on the strength of an official report, the version more agreeable to Northern pride.