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Two Novels: The Captain and the Colonel / Two Years, or, The Way We Lived Then (The Publications of the ...
Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut

University of Virginia Press, 2002

As the well-educated and socially skilled wife of a prominent Confederate. Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut (1823-86) was ideally situated-and intellectually equipped-to record the narrative of daily life in the Confederacy during the Civil War. Yet while she is widely recognized for the significant contribution of her "diaries," Mary Chesnut's other works chronicling her experiences in the Civil War South have remained-until now-unpublished and ...

A Diary From Dixie

14 reviews
Mary Boykin Chesnut, Ben Ames Williams, ...

Harvard University Press, 2003

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 ...

Mary Chesnut's Civil War

8 reviews
Mary Chesnut

Yale University Press, 1993

Immerse Yourself In Chesnut's Suffering World
Mary Chesnut was a name dropper, and thank goodness, because in passing along her gossip, opinions, news, and personal undertakings, she created the most comprehensive day-to-day record of life in the Confederacy that we have. Although this is both a diary and a later refurbishment of earlier writings (to the point it almost becomes a memoir in epistolary form) Mrs. Chesnut, an aristocratic lady ...

The Private Mary Chesnut: The Unpublished Civil War Diaries (A Galaxy Book)

3 reviews
Mary Boykin Chesnut

Oxford University Press, USA, 1984

America's Own Pepys
This is the one indispensible book for anyone interested in what went on in the South behind the battle lines. As Pepys gives us a living picture of the London and court of Charles II, so does M. Chesnut give us a bird's eye view of the Confederate government and the society she lived in. A wise and witty woman, Mary Chesnut spent most of the war years close to ground zero in Richmond, VA. She ...

Mary Chesnut's Civil War (Essential Classics of the Civil War)
Mary Chesnut

Yale University Press, 1994

A Diary From Dixie: As Written By Mary Boykin Chesnut, Wife Of James Chesnut, Jr., United States Senator From ...
Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2008

And Afterward An Aide To Jefferson Davis And A Brigadier-General In The Confederate Army.

Mary Chesnut's Civil War (Volumes I and II) Easton Press Leatherbound Collector's Editions (Easton Press ...
Mary Chesnut

Easton Press, 1998

Complete Two-Volume Set. Books feature Books are bound in matching navy leather, with 22-kt gold stamping to the covers and spines, silk moire endpapers, satin ribbon page markers, and all edges gilt.