A Diary from Dixie (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)

by Mary Boykin Chesnut, Clara Juncker (Introduction)

Overview

Mary Chesnut changed history to herstory.  “From today forward,” she writes in the first entry of A Diary from Dixie, “I will tell the story in my own way.” From the Secession Convention in Charleston all the way to Lee’s surrender, Chesnut recorded the dramatic events of the Civil War. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411429994
Publisher:	Union Square & Co.
Publication date:	09/01/2009
Series:	Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Read
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	480
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Mary Boykin Chesnut (1823–1886) always breathed politics. She was the first-born daughter of Stephen Miller, a U.S. senator, and married James Chesnut, Jr., when she was seventeen years old. She followed her husband from one assignment to another during the war and is buried next to him at Knights Hill Cemetery in Camden, South Carolina.