Author: Sarah Morgan Dawson
Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1960
Series: Civil War Centennial Series, IUP
Binding: hardcover
Condition: fine/fine
Price: $50.00
ISBN: Ø
CVB Inv: 00194
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Description:
A volume in a series of Civil War-era memoirs, reissued as the Civil War Centennial Series by Indiana University Press during 1957-1962.
Edited with a Foreword and notes by James I. Robertson, jr. Introduction by Warrington Dawson.
Hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust jacket condition: fine. Cover has very minor shelf wear to head and tail of spine. Jacket has minor rubbing to head and tail of spine, and at wrap corners. Small octavo; xxxviii + 473 pp. Red lettering on gray cloth boards. Frontispiece b/w photo of Sarah Fowler Morgan; seven other b/w illustrations. Binding and hinges tight; clean copy with no markings.
Sarah Morgan Dawson was born into an aristocratic family of Baton Rouge. She lived in Louisiana during the war, thereafter in South Carolina, and spent her final years in Paris. Her Civil War diary was edited by her son Warrington Dawson, and was first published in 1913.
