The Mary Boykin Chesnut Page

( 1823-1886 )

Major Works
The Private Mary Chesnut: The Unpublished Civil War Diaries. Edited by C. Vann Woodward and Elisabeth Muhlenfeld. Oxford, 1984. These are the actual diaries kept by Mary Chesnut during the war.
Mary Chesnut's Civil War. Edited by C. Vann Woodward. Yale, 1981. After two or three false starts by earlier editors, Mary Chesnut's work is here presented entire. Her book is one of the most impressive books to have come out of the Civil War. It is must reading even for those who plan never to read another book from the Civil War era. 1905 Edition On Line

About Chesnut
Elisabeth Muhlenfeld, Mary Boykin Chesnut: A Biography. Foreword by C. Van Woodward. Louisiana State, 1981.

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