[ 16 ] Note by Mrs. Dawson in 1896: wrong—she married Lieutenant Dupré.
[ 17 ] Note by Mrs. Dawson: he was transferred in his coffin.
[ 18 ] Captain F. W. Dawson, whom Sarah Morgan eventually married, was at that time a captain in Virginia, and she had not yet seen him.
[ 19 ] This paragraph, which occurs retrospectively in the Diary under date of New Orleans, Sunday, May 24th, 1863, is inserted here for the sake of clearness.—W. D.
[ 20 ] The torn edge of a page has obliterated several words, which might, to judge by the context, have been "was seen in."