Category - Non Fiction / History
Format - Paperback
Condition - Fair
Listed - A year ago
Views - 9
Ships From - California
Est. Publication Date - Nov 1984
Seller Description
used/normal wear. no writing or markings. corners kind of curling on cover and first few pages. see pics. no missing pages. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian C. Vann Woodward and Chesnut's biographer Elisabeth Muhlenfeld present here the previously unpublished Civil War diaries of Mary Boykin Chesnut. The ideal diarist, Mary Chesnut was at the right place at the right time with the right connections. Daughter of one senator from South Carolina and wife of another, she had kin and friends all over the Confederacy and knew intimately its political and military leaders. At Montgomery whenthe new nation was founded, at Charleston when the war started, and at Richmond during many crises, she traveled extensively during the war. She watched a world "literally kicked to pieces" and leftthe most vivid account we have of the death throes of a society. The diaries, filled with personal revelations and indiscretions, are indispensable to an appreciation of our most famous Southern literary insight into the Civil War experience. CONDITION – USED
Additional Information
The Private Mary Chesnut: The Unpublished Civil War Diaries
ISBN: 9780195035131
Publisher Description
The author, a citizen of South Carolina during the Civil War, shares her experiences and opinions about the war, slavery, and the people around her
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