Sarah morgan dawson biography of barack
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A Confederate Girl’s Diary by Sarah Morgan Dawson
March.
Dead! Dead! Both dead! O my brothers! What have we lived for except you? We, who would have so gladly laid down our lives for yours, are left desolate to mourn over all we loved and hoped for, weak and helpless; while you, so strong, noble, and brave, have gone before us without a murmur. God knows best. But it is hard — O so hard! to give them up. . . .
If we had had any warning or preparation, this would not have been so unspeakably awful. But to shut one’s eyes to all dangers and risks, and drown every rising fear with “God will send them back; I will not doubt His mercy,” and then suddenly to learn that your faith has been presumption—and God wills that you shall undergo bitter affliction — it is a fearful awakening! What glory have we ever rendered to God that we should expect him to be so merciful to us? Are not all things His, and is not He infinitely more tender and compassionate than we deserve?
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Sarah Morgan Dawson about 1892,
portrait published in The kust Magazine in 1906
The Morgan family's trials continued after Sarah and her mother funnen refuge in Union-occupied . Brothers Gibbes and George both died in January, 1864.
Mourning at Stonewall Jackson's grave
Thomas Gibbes Morgan
1835-1864
Gibbes left wife Lydia and three children, Howell,
the youngest, born at Clinton Plantation.
An anonymous portrait from the 1870s
picturing grief and mourning, the general lot of
postwar women.
In the words of Sarah's son, Warrington: "The war over, Sarah knitted tillsammans the threads of her torn life and faced her present."
Judge Philip Hicky Morgan
was a post-war Louisiana Supreme Court Justice.
Sarah and her mother lived with him in New Orleans
from 1863 to 1872.
Sarah took over the care of Gibbes's son Howell Morgan (1863-1952), and in 1872 moved with her mother to to live with her youngest bro
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Sarah Morgan Dawson was a young woman of 20 living in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, when she began this diary. The American Civil War was raging. Though at first the conflict seemed far away, it would eventually be brought home to her in very personal terms.
Her family's loyalties were divided. Sarah's father, though he disapproved of secession, declared for the South when Louisiana left the Union. Her eldest brother, who became the family patriarch when his father died in 1861, was for the Union, though he refused to take up arms against his fellow Southerners. The family owned slaves, some of whom are mentioned by name in this diary. Sarah was devoted to the Confederacy, and watched with sorrow and indignation its demise.
Her diary, written from March 1862 to June 1865, discourses on topics as normal as household routines and rom