Mary Chesnut's Civil War Epic
β Julia A. Stern
π Library
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2010
π University of Chicago Press
π English
A genteel southern intellectual, saloniste, and wife to a prominent colonel in Jefferson Davisβs inner circle, Mary Chesnut today is remembered best for her penetrating Civil War diary. Composed between 1861 and 1865 and revised thoroughly from the late 1870s until Chesnutβs death in 1886, the diary