In Occupied Baton Rouge: "Pshaw! There Are No Women Here! We Are All Men!"
Life on the Civil War Reserach Trail
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What do Southern citizen accounts say about being occupied? Here's one, an early war account from the diary of Sarah Fowler Morgan, whose family was divided by secession and the hostilities that followed.
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