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Mary Boykin Chesnut

(Chesnut, Mary Boykin, 1823-1886)

Mary Boykin Chesnut (née Miller; March 31, 1823 – November 22, 1886) was an American writer noted for a book published as her Civil War diary, a "vivid picture of a society in the throes of its life-and-death struggle." She described the war from within her upper-class circles of Southern slaveowner society, but encompassed all classes in her book. She was married to James Chesnut Jr., a lawyer who served as a United States senator and officer in the Confederate States Army. (From Wikipedia)

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A Diary from Dixie (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1905), by Mary Boykin Chesnut, ed. by Isabella D. Martin and Myrta Lockett Avary
A Diary from Dixie (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1906), by Mary Boykin Chesnut, ed. by Isabella D. Martin and Myrta Lockett Avary
A Diary from Dixie (New York: P. Smith, 1929), by Mary Boykin Chesnut, ed. by Isabella D. Martin and Myrta Lockett Avary (page images at HathiTrust)

Books by Mary Boykin Chesnut:

Chesnut, Mary Boykin, 1823-1886: A Diary from Dixie (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1905), ed. by Isabella D. Martin and Myrta Lockett Avary
Chesnut, Mary Boykin, 1823-1886: A Diary from Dixie (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1906), ed. by Isabella D. Martin and Myrta Lockett Avary
Chesnut, Mary Boykin, 1823-1886: A Diary from Dixie (New York: P. Smith, 1929), ed. by Isabella D. Martin and Myrta Lockett Avary (page images at HathiTrust)

Additional books by Mary Boykin Chesnut in the extended shelves:

Chesnut, Mary Boykin, 1823-1886: A 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 (Peter Smith, 1961), also by Myrta Lockett Avary and Isabella D. Martin (page images at HathiTrust)

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