This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.
Mary Chesnut changed history to herstory. “From today forward, ” she writes in the first entry of
A Diary from Dixie, “I will tell the story in my own way.” From the Secession Convention in Charleston all the way to Lee’s surrender, Chesnut recorded the dramatic events of the Civil War.
Über den Autor
Mary Boykin Chesnut (1823–1886) always breathed politics. She was the first-born daughter of Stephen Miller, a U.S. senator, and married James Chesnut, Jr., when she was seventeen years old. She followed her husband from one assignment to another during the war and is buried next to him at Knights Hill Cemetery in Camden, South Carolina.
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