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Mary Chesnut's Civil War
by Mary Chesnut

Mary Chesnut's Civil War
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Author: Mary Chesnut
Editor: C. Vann Woodward
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1993-09-10
ISBN: 0300029799
Number of pages: 892
Publisher: Yale University Press

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Book Review: A good way to immerse yourself in the time
Summary: 5 Stars

I found the reading of this Pulitzer-prize-winning book an excellent way to seem to live in South Carolina and Virginia during the Civil War. I have no Southern background, and have always been pleased the Civil War turned out as it did, but his book gives some insight into the thinking of the secessionists and Southerners in the time of the War. The book is excellently edited, and the literary footnotes are a big help to see what the intelligent Southerner was reading during the war. Now I would like to read a biography of Mrs. Chesnut or of her husband. (The frank tension between Mary and her husband is an interesting sidelight to the main story of the diary.)

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