Friday, September 4, 2015

Diary of Sarah Morgan: July 27, 1862

I have my bird back! As I waked this morning, I heard a well-known chirp in the streets, and called to mother I knew it was Jimmy. Sure enough it is my bird. Lucy Daigre has had him ever since the shelling, as a negro caught it that day and gave it to her.

SOURCE: Sarah Morgan Dawson, A Confederate Girl's Diary, p. 135-6

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