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Diary of Mary Chesnut

| May 21, 2012

Chesnut, Mary. A Diary from Dixie. Written 1860-1865. Today we can only imagine living through a war taking place inside our own country. Mary Chesnut of South Carolina, married to Confederate General James Chesnut, was forced to live through the Civil War and had the forethought to keep a diary, which she began on November […]