Born into one of the best families of Baton Rouge, Sarah Morgan was not yet twenty when she began her diary in January, 1862, nine months after the start of the Civil War. She was soon to experience a coming-of-age filled with the turmoil and upheaval that devastated the wartime South. Now published in its entirety for the first time, Sarah Morgan’s classic account brings the Civil War and the Old South to life with all the freshness and immediacy of great literature.