A diary from Dixie
by Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, Isabella D Martin, Myrta Avary · 1949
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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.
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