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On January 10, 1862, in the first entry of her new diary, Sarah Morgan wrote “A new year has opened to me while my thoughts are still wrapped up in the last; Heaven send it may be a happier one than 1862.” The year prior her father had passed away unexpectedly, her brother Henry Waller Fowler Morgan had been killed in the duel, and the Civil War had just begun.
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Her wish did not come true.
Nineteen years prior, Sarah Morgan was born to Judge Thomas Gibbes Morgan and his second wife Sarah Fowler Morgan in New Orleans, Louisiana. Both parents were not native to the South.
Thomas “Gibbes” Morgan, a New Jersey-born and Pennsylvania educated lawyer, had immigrated to the South in the 1820s with his brother Morris Morgan. His brother married a daughter of Colonel Philip Hicky and became a respected member of the planter class.
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Thomas, in contrast, became a successful lawyer and public servant. Sarah, his wife, was born in New England. Orphaned at a young age,