Overview :"In her admirable biography of Mary Chesnut, Elisabeth Muhlenfeld has American literature as well as American history in her debt." -- C. Va... Read More
Overview :Born into the plantation gentry of South Carolina, granted the advantages of wealth, social position, and education by virtue of her family ... Read More
Overview :Mary Boykin Chesnut kept a famous diary that captured the struggles people experienced during the American Civil War (1861-65; a war between... Read More
Overview :Step into the vivid world of the American Civil War through the eyes of Mary Boykin Chesnut in "A Diary from Dixie," a compelling narrative ... Read More
Overview :As the well-educated and socially skilled wife of a prominent Confederate, Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut (1823-86) was ideally situated--and in... Read More
Overview :An unrivalled account of the American Civil War from the Confederate perspective. One of the most compelling personal narratives of the Ci... Read More
Overview :Pulitzer Prize-winning historian C. Vann Woodward and Chesnut's biographer Elisabeth Muhlenfeld present here the previously unpublished Civi... Read More
Overview :Mary Chesnut kept her diary from early in 1861, just before the Civil War began, to shortly after the end of the war, in 1865. Though not a ... Read More
Overview :One of the most important documents in southern history, this is a day-by-day diary of the Civil War years. It rings with authenticity while... Read More
Overview :A singular view from a remarkable woman This is a famous book. Any source work is worthy and accounts of the American Civil War from the fem... Read More