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A Diary from Dixie

Name: A Diary from Dixie
Author: Mary Boykin Chesnut

by Mary Boykin Chesnut

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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

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by MWS and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Release date

2019-12-12

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Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate Southern States -- Biography Chesnut, Mary Boykin, 1823-1886 -- Diaries Confederate States of America -- History -- Sources E456

About the author

Mary Boykin Chesnut

1823–1886

Best known for the Civil War diary later published as Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, this South Carolina writer recorded the Confederacy from the inside with sharp wit, honesty, and an eye for everyday life in extraordinary times. Her journal remains one of the most vivid firsthand accounts of the era.

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