Mary Boykin Chesnut
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Mary Boykin Chesnut
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Mary Boykin Chesnut was an American writer noted for a book published as her Civil War diary, a "vivid picture of a society in the throes of its life-and-death struggle." She described the war from within her upper-class circles of Southern slaveowner society, but encompassed all classes in her book. She was married to James Chesnut Jr., a lawyer who served as a United States senator and officer in the Confederate States Army. Chesnut worked toward a final form of her book in 1881–1884, based on
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American Confederacy Civil War diarist (1823–1886)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Boykin_Chesnut
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2005-07-02T23:30:28Z
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2024-09-10T14:15:25Z
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