Mary Chesnut's Civil War /
Mary B. Chesnut; Edited by C. Vann Woodward.
- New York : Book-of-the-Month Club, 1994,c1981.
- lviii, 886 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Selections from this work were previously published under title: A diary from Dixie.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Road to Montgomery -- 2. Nation in the making -- 3. "Into the black cloud" -- 4. The home front -- 5. Waiting for the real war -- 6. "First sprightly running" -- 7. "Who killed Cock Robin?" -- 8. "I am always on the women's side" -- 9. Witherspoon murder case -- 10. Fall of Port Royal -- 11. The politics of war -- 13. "With horror and amazement" -- 14. "Nothing to chronicle but disasters" -- 15. "Fiction is so flat, comparatively" -- 16. "In all this death and destruction" -- 17. "The best and the bravest" -- 18. " A world kicked to pieces" : memoirs -- 19. In spite of blockade" -- 20. Between war and peace -- 21. "Enjoy the brief hour" -- 22. Buck and the wounded knight -- 23. "How hardened we grow" -- 24. "Blows now fall so fast" -- 25. "Is anything worth it?" -- 26. A President pays a call -- 27. "Cassandra wails" -- 28. "Listen for Sherman's bugles" -- 29. "Thermopylae business" -- 30. Refugees in Lubberland -- 31. "Job is my comforter" -- 32. Keeping ahead of Sherman -- 33. "The game is up" -- 34. The smoking ruins -- 35. Survivors.
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Chesnut, Mary Boykin Miller 1823-1886
History--United States--1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate--Confederate States of America Confederate