from dixie diary

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Mary Boykin Chestnut, Ben Ames Williams

Gramercy, 1997

An invaluable insight into the Southern Confederacy
This primary source document is one of the best windows we have into southern society during the American Civil War. Mary Chestnut was a southern aristocrat, married to the man who was the first to resign his seat in the US Senate before the war. She knew many prominent Confederate leaders well--Jefferson Davis, John Bell Hood, and Wade Hampton among them--and was acquainted with nearly all of ...