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Abraham Lincoln

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Sarah Dawson documents that mention Abraham Lincoln (8 total)

• Sarah Dawson journal entry

  Baton Rouge, LA - 1 July 1862

  These officers say the women talk too much, which is undeniable. They then said, they meant to get up a sewing society, and place in it...

• Sarah Dawson journal entry

  Baton Rouge, LA - 4 July 1862

  Here I am, and still alive, having wakened but once in the night, and that only in consequence of Louis and Morgan crying...

• Sarah Dawson journal entry

  Linwood, LA - 28 August 1862

  I saw the first Yankee camp that Will Pinckney and Colonel Bird had set fire to the day of the battle. Such a shocking sight of charred wood, burnt clothes, tents, and all imaginable articles strewn around...

• Sarah Dawson journal entry

  Linwood, LA - 9 November 1862

  And to think old Abe wants to deprive us of all that fun! No more cotton, sugar-cane, or ric! No more old black aunties or uncles! No more rides in mule teams, no more songs in the cane-field...

• Sarah Dawson journal entry

  Linwood, LA - 23 January 1863

  A very few people have been insolent enough to say to me, "Your brother is as good a Yankee as any." My blood boils as I answer, "Let him be President Lincoln if he will, and I would love him the same.

• Sarah Dawson journal entry

  New Orleans, LA - 19 April 1865

  Thursday the 13th came the dreadful tidings of the surrender of Lee and his army on the 9th. Everybody cried, but I would not, satisfied that God will still save us, even though all should apparently be lost.

• Sarah Dawson journal entry

  New Orleans, LA - 22 April 1865

  For the more violently "Secesh " the inmates, the more thankful they are for Lincoln's death, the more profusely the houses are decked with the emblems of woe.

• Sarah Dawson journal entry

  New Orleans, LA - 15 June 1865

  Our Confederacy has gone with one crash - the report of the pistol fired at Lincoln.

Ambrose Burnside

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• Sarah Dawson journal entry

  Clinton, LA - 3 September 1862

  But if we get home, what will we do for bedding? The Yankees did not leave us a single comfort, and only two old bars and a pair of ragged sheets..

George McClellan

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• Sarah Dawson journal entry

  Baton Rouge, LA - 5 June 1862

  Beauregard is undoubtedly coming to attack Baton Rouge; his fire would burn the town, if the gunboats do not; the Yankees will shell, at all events, if forced to retire.

• Sarah Dawson journal entry

  Baton Rouge, LA - 4 July 1862

  Here I am, and still alive, having wakened but once in the night, and that only in consequence of Louis and Morgan crying...

• Sarah Dawson journal entry

  Baton Rouge, LA - 7 July 1862

  He says a boat from Mobile reached the city Saturday evening, and the captain told Mr. La Noue that he brought an extra from the former place, containing news of McClellan's surrender with his entire army...

• Sarah Dawson journal entry

  Baton Rouge, LA - 10 July 1862

  A proclamation is out announcing that any one talking about the war, or present state of affairs, will be "summarily" dealt with.

• Sarah Dawson journal entry

  Baton Rouge, LA - 21 July 1862

  If we could keep all the dispatches that have passed between us since the battle of the forts, what a collection of absurdity and contradiction it would be!

• Sarah Dawson journal entry

  Westover, LA - 3 August 1862

  As we reached the ferry, I discovered I had lost the pass, and had to walk back and search for it...

• Sarah Dawson journal entry

  Linwood, LA - 26 September 1862

  ...to-day we hear that McClellan's army has been cut to pieces; but whether it is the same old fight or a new one, I cannot as yet learn ; for reliable information is not easily obtained in America at this period.

• Sarah Dawson journal entry

  Bonfouca, LA - 18 April 1863

  I have read descriptions of such houses and people, but I have not often seen them. The man and his wife were perfect specimens of the low Canadian, speaking only French.

Thomas Jackson

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• Sarah Dawson journal entry

  Baton Rouge, LA - 4 July 1862

  Here I am, and still alive, having wakened but once in the night, and that only in consequence of Louis and Morgan crying...

• Sarah Dawson journal entry

  Clinton, LA - 14 September 1862

  There is one thing in which Sophie and I agree, and that is in making Stonewall Jackson our hero.

• Sarah Dawson journal entry

  Linwood, LA - 17 September 1862

  Many soldiers were aboard on their way to Port Hudson, to rejoin their companies. One gallant one offered me a drink of water from his canteen, which I accepted out of mere curiosity...

• Sarah Dawson journal entry

  Linwood, LA - 28 September 1862

  We were roused up at four o'clock last night by the arrival of Lydia and Eugene Carter... of course, there was very little sleep for any of us, so anxious were we to hear the news they brought.

• Sarah Dawson journal entry

  Linwood, LA - 6 October 1862

  Last night, I actually drew from Gibbes the outlines of Jackson's campaign.

• Sarah Dawson journal entry

  Linwood, LA - 31 March 1863

  "To be, or not to be; that's the question." Whether tis nobler in the Confederacy to suffer the pangs of unappeasable hunger and never-ending trouble, or to take passage to a Yankee port, and there remaining, end them.

Robert Lee

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• Sarah Dawson journal entry

  Clinton, LA - 16 September 1862

  Go or stay, the danger seems the same. Shall we go, then, for variety, or die here of stagnation while waiting for the Yankees to make up their minds?

• Sarah Dawson journal entry

  New Orleans, LA - 15 July 1863

  Dreadful news has come of the defeat of Lee at Gettysburg. Think I believe it all? He may have been defeated ; but not one of these reports of total overthrow and rout do I credit.

• Sarah Dawson journal entry

  New Orleans, LA - 19 April 1865

  Thursday the 13th came the dreadful tidings of the surrender of Lee and his army on the 9th. Everybody cried, but I would not, satisfied that God will still save us, even though all should apparently be lost.

Jefferson Davis

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• Sarah Dawson journal entry

  Linwood, LA - 12 November 1862

  Once more a cripple and consigned to my bed, for how long, Heaven only knows.

• Sarah Dawson journal entry

  New Orleans, LA - 21 June 1863

  How about that oath of allegiance? is what I frequently ask myself, and always an uneasy qualm of conscience troubles me. Guilty or not guilty of perjury?

• Sarah Dawson journal entry

  New Orleans, LA - 19 April 1865

  Thursday the 13th came the dreadful tidings of the surrender of Lee and his army on the 9th. Everybody cried, but I would not, satisfied that God will still save us, even though all should apparently be lost.

John Wool

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• Sarah Dawson journal entry

  Linwood, LA - 26 September 1862

  ...to-day we hear that McClellan's army has been cut to pieces; but whether it is the same old fight or a new one, I cannot as yet learn ; for reliable information is not easily obtained in America at this period.

Pierre Beauregard

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• Sarah Dawson journal entry

  Baton Rouge, LA - 27 April 1862

  What a day! Last night came a dispatch that New Orleans was under British protection, and could not be bombarded

• Sarah Dawson journal entry

  Baton Rouge, LA - 4 June 1862

  Our condition is desperate. Beauregard is about attacking these Federals. They say he is coming from Corinth, and the fight will be in town. If true, we are lost again.