Chesnut, Mary Boykin
(b. March 31, 1823; d. November 22, 1886) Author of an important Civil War diary.
Mary Boykin Chesnut penned one of the most significant Civil War diaries ever written. Born to ...
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Mary Boykin Chesnut
Born March 31, 1823
Statesburg, South Carolina
Died November 22, 1886
Camden, South Carolina
Civil War diarist
"I have nothing to chronicle but disasters. . . .The reali...
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Diarist Mary Boykin Chesnut (1823-1886) captured an intimate view of the political and personal struggles of the Confederate South during the Civil War. Her journal of the war years describes not only...
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Mary Boykin Chesnut's Civil War diary is one of the most insightful and well-written accounts of the war and of life in the Confederacy. According to her biographer, Elisabeth Muhlenfeld, Chesnut's te...
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Chesnut, Mary Boykin
Mary Boykin Chesnut
Mary Boykin Chesnut
Mary Boykin Chesnut