A Diary from Dixie

by Mary Boykin Chesnut, Ben Ames Williams, Edmund Wilson

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 evoking the nostalgia, bitterness, and comedy of the Confederacy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674202917
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	05/07/1980
Pages:	608
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 1.60(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Charleston

2. Montgomery

3. Camden

4. Charleston

5. Camden

6. Montgomery

7. Camden

8. Richmond

9. Fauquier White Sulphur Springs

10. Richmond

11. Camden

12. Columbia

13. Camden

14. Columbia

15. Flat Rock

16. Memories

17. Camden

18. Richmond

19. Camden

20. Columbia

21. Lincolnton, N.C.

22. Chester

23. Camden

Index

Editorial Reviews

Mary Boykin Chesnut steps out alive from the pages of her journal as beautiful, vivacious, flirtatious, warm-hearted, cool-thinking, astonishingly frank and wonderfully articulate…The book is very quotable.

New York Times

It is hardly too much to say that what Samuel Pepys's diary is to the reign of Charles II, Mary Boykin Chesnut's is to the Confederacy. To thousands now and in years to come it will be a fascinating source of information, an invaluable aid to the understanding of a great period, and a lasting delight.

Saturday Review