Book DescriptionThe private and public writings in this volume reveal the early relationship between renowned Civil War diarist Sarah Morgan (1842?1909) and her future husband, Francis Warrington Dawson (1840?1889). Gathered here is a selectionof their letters along with various articles that Morgan wrote anonymously for the Charleston News and Courier, which Dawson owned and edited. In January 1873 Morgan met Francis Warrington Dawson, an English expatriate, Confederate veteran, and newspaperman. By then Morgan had left her native Louisiana and was living near Columbia, South Carolina, with her younger brother, James Morris Morgan. When Sarah Morgan and Frank Dawson met, he was mourning the recent death of his first wife. She, in turn, was still grieving over her family?s many wartime losses. The couple?s relationship came to encompass both the personal and the professional. To free Morgan from an unhappy dependence on her brother, Dawson urged her to...

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