Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary of a Southern Woman

Born into one of the best families of Baton Rouge, Sarah Morgan was not yet twenty when she began her diary in January 1862, nine months after the start of the Civil War. She was soon to experience a coming-of-age filled with the turmoil and upheaval that devastated the wartime South. She set down the Remarkable events of the war in a record that remains one of the most vivid, evocative portrayals in existence of a time and place that today make up a crucial chapter in our national history. Sarah Morgan herself emerges as one of the most memorable nineteenth-century women in fiction or nonfiction, a young woman of intelligence and fortitude, as well as of high spirits and passion, who questioned the society into which she was born and the meaning of the war for ordinary families like her own and for the divided nation as a whole. Now published in its entirety for the first time, Sarah Morgan's classic account brings the Civil War and the Old South to life with all the freshness and immediacy of great literature.

Author: Charles East
Publisher: Touchstone Books
Published: 10/01/1992
Pages: 672
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.73lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.16w x 1.66d
ISBN13: 9780671785031
ISBN10: 0671785036
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Social Science | General
- History | United States | Civil War Period (1850-1877)

About the Author
Charles East is a former editor at the University of Georgia Press and former director of the Louisiana State University Press. He is the author of several books and is the series editor for the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.