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Chesnut, Mary Boykin

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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Subjects--Personal Names:
Chesnut, Mary Boykin Miller 1823-1886

Subjects--Topical Terms:
History--United States--1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate--Confederate States of America
Confederate

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Southern States --Biography

LC Class. No.: E487 / .C5

Dewey Class. No.: 973.782 Che 15