Sarah Morgan Dawson

Born in New Orleans on February 28, 1842, Sarah Fowler Morgan Dawson was an American diarist and later an editorial writer. She is best known for the journal she kept during the Civil War, beginning in 1862 while still a teenager and recording daily life, fear, upheaval, and loss in wartime Louisiana.

Her diary was published after her death as A Confederate Girl's Diary, and it has continued to be read as an important first-person account of the Southern home front. The work is often noted for its immediacy and for the way it captures both public events and private feeling.

After the war, she married Francis Warrington Dawson, who became editor of the Charleston News & Courier. She also wrote editorials for that paper under the pen name "Mr. Fowler." She died in Paris on May 5, 1909.