Sarah Morgan Dawson manuscripts, 1908.

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Sarah Morgan Dawson manuscripts, 1908.

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Two manuscript narratives from an unfinished volume of Sarah Morgan Dawson's Reminiscences and Miscellanies recalled by her during the last years of her life at the request of her children, namely, "The Lamentable Romance of Lovely Estelle Randolph and the Shooting of Captain Buck Bradford" and "The Hope Estate Ladies."

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Dawson, Sarah Morgan, 1842-1909

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Sarah Morgan Dawson was a white, Civil War diarist. She was born Sarah Ida Fowler Morgan, to Thomas Gibbs Morgan (1799-1861) and Sarah Hunt Fowler Morgan (1807-1874), in New Orleans, La. At the outbreak of the Civil War, she moved with her family to Baton Rouge, La., but was forced to return to New Orleans with her widowed mother after her father's death. She married Frank Warrington Dawson (1840-1889), editor of the Charleston, S.C. News and Courier. Her diary, written from the age ...