chesnut, mary boykin miller

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.

Written during the Civil War, this diary reveals the life of Mary Chesnut, wife of a South Carolina legislator who served the Confederacy.

Presents the 1861-65 diaries of Mary Chesnut, an aristocratic woman from South Carolina, which give a firsthand look at well-to-do civilian life in the Confederacy.