Diary from Dixie, as Written by Mary Boykin Chesnut, Wife of James Chesnut, Jr. , United States Senator from South Carolina, 1859-1861, and Afterward an Aide to Jefferson Davis and a Brigadier-General in the Confederate Army

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In her diary, Mary Boykin Chesnut, the wife of a Confederate general and aid to president Jefferson Davis, James Chestnut, Jr., presents an eyewitness account of the Civil War.

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People: Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut (1823-1886)

Places: Confederate States of America,  Southern States,  United States

Times: Civil War, 1861-1865,  Civil War