“Wartime portion of this fine recollection of Thomas Dabney and his family; Union occupation in Mississippi, refugee life in Macon, Georgia, and the sad but genteel poverty of a proud man after the war.”
"March 9, 1862 - May 2, 1865. One of the best Confederate diaries, written by a Baton Rouge girl, who was a fervent Confederate. In 1863, she moved to the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain and later into New Orleans. Dawson was initially ambivalent…