How Long to Read A Confederate Girl's Diary

How Long Does it Take to Read A Confederate Girl's Diary?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 43 minutes to read A Confederate Girl's Diary by Sarah Dawson

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

A Confederate Girl's Diary by Sarah Morgan Dawson. With an Introduction by Warrington Dawson. It is perhaps due to a chance conversation, held some seventeen years ago in New York, that this Diary of the Civil War was saved from destruction. A Philadelphian had been talking with my mother of North and South, and had alluded to the engagement between the Essex and the Arkansas, on the Mississippi, as a brilliant victory for the Federal navy. My mother protested, at once; said that she and her sister Miriam, and several friends, had been witnesses, from the levee, to the fact that the Confederates had fired and abandoned their own ship when the machinery broke down, after two shots had been exchanged: the Federals, cautiously turning the point, had then captured but a smoking hulk. The Philadelphian gravely corrected her; history, it appeared, had consecrated, on the strength of an official report, the version more agreeable to Northern pride. "But I wrote a description of the whole, just a few hours after it occurred!" my mother insisted. "Early in the war I began to keep a diary, and continued until the very end; I had to find some vent for my feelings, and I would not make an exhibition of myself by talking, as so many women did. I have written while resting to recover breath in the midst of a stampede; I have even written with shells bursting over the house in which I sat, ready to flee but waiting for my mother and sisters to finish their preparations."

How long is A Confederate Girl's Diary?

A Confederate Girl's Diary by Sarah Dawson is 162 pages long, and a total of 40,824 words.

This makes it 55% the length of the average book. It also has 50% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read A Confederate Girl's Diary Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 43 minutes to read A Confederate Girl's Diary aloud.

What Reading Level is A Confederate Girl's Diary?

A Confederate Girl's Diary is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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