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Book Synopsis John Chesnut Papers by : John Chesnut
Download or read book John Chesnut Papers written by John Chesnut and published by . This book was released on 1790 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers, 1790-1999, chiefly consist of papers for land in Kershaw County, South Carolina leased by John Chesnut to Robert Welsh, Samuel Boykin, and William Boykin and correspondence with Jonathan Sutton (1749-1831) and Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1746-1825). Includes genealogical sketch, 24 February 1999, of the Chesnut family and allied families.
Book Synopsis Chesnut Family Papers by : Chesnut family
Download or read book Chesnut Family Papers written by Chesnut family and published by . This book was released on 1741 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers pertain to the business, financial, and plantation affairs and political activities of three generations of the Chesnut family, John Chesnut, James Chesnut, and James Chesnut, Jr., as well as James Chesnut, Jr.'s father-in-law Stephen Decatur Miller and John L. Manning.
Book Synopsis Calendar of the Chesnut Family Papers, 1792-1896, Held by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin by :
Download or read book Calendar of the Chesnut Family Papers, 1792-1896, Held by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin written by and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calendar of the Chesnut family papers, 1782-1896, consisting primarily of correspondence of: James Chesnut, Jr. (1815-1885), a prominent secessionist and member of the South Carolina legislature and later an aide to General Beauregard; his father-in-law, Stephen Decatur Miller (1787-1838); and a contemporary, John Lawrence Manning (1816-1889), governor from 1852 to 1854.
Book Synopsis The Man Who Started the Civil War by : Anna Koivusalo
Download or read book The Man Who Started the Civil War written by Anna Koivusalo and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2022-06-20 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh biography of a neglected figure in Southern history who played a pivotal role in the Civil War. In the predawn hours of April 12, 1861, James Chesnut Jr. piloted a small skiff across the Charleston Harbor and delivered the fateful order to open fire on Fort Sumter—the first shots of the Civil War. In The Man Who Started the Civil War, Anna Koivusalo offers the first comprehensive biography of Chesnut and through him a history of honor and emotion in elite white southern culture. Koivusalo reveals the dynamic, and at times fragile, nature of these concepts as they were tested and transformed from the era of slavery through Reconstruction. Best remembered as the husband of Mary Boykin Chesnut, author of A Diary from Dixie, James Chesnut served in the South Carolina legislature and as a US senator before becoming a leading figure in the South's secession from the Union. Koivusalo recounts how honor and emotion shaped Chesnut's life events and the decisions that culminated in the cataclysm of civil war. Challenging the traditional view of honor as a code, Koivusalo illuminates honor's vital but fickle role as a source for summoning, channeling, and expressing emotion in the nineteenth-century South.
Book Synopsis Mary Boykin Chesnut by : Elisabeth S. Muhlenfeld
Download or read book Mary Boykin Chesnut written by Elisabeth S. Muhlenfeld and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1992-09-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In her admirable biography of Mary Chesnut, Elisabeth Muhlenfeld has American literature as well as American history in her debt." -- C. Vann Woodward Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut (1823--1886) is known today for her excellent firsthand account of life in the Confederate States of America. A Diary from Dixie (republished in 1981 as Mary Chesnut's Civil War)is far more than a simple diary, however, for Mrs. Chesnut's drawing room was a social center for many of the most prominent political and military figures in the Confederacy. Elisabeth Muhlenfeld's expert biography utilizes Mrs. Chesnut's autobiographical writings, her papers, and those of her family, as well as published sources. It traces her life in South Carolina from her childhood, as the daughter of a governor and United States senator, through her schooling and her marriage to James Chesnut, Jr., the son of a wealthy South Carolina planter. During the war her husband served as an aide to P. G. T. Beauregard and to Jefferson Davis, achieving the rank of general. Muhlenfeld emphasizes Mary Chesnut's last twenty years, when she helped her family through the intricacies of repaying immense debts incurred during the Civil War, rebuilding wrecked homes, and reestablishing some measure of order and security. These were also the years of her serious writing. She experimented with fiction, writing three novels and translating others from the French; and in 1881 she began the last revisions of her Civil War journal. In the descriptive passages, characterizations, thematic patterns, and overall structure of the revised journal, Chesnut employed the techniques she had learned by writing fiction. Besides adding to our knowledge of this unusual nineteenth-century southern woman, Mary Boykin Chesnut: A Biography enhances our knowledge of the history of women in general as it delineates the transformation of a wartime diary into the chronicle that remains a major document in southern history.
Book Synopsis Mary Boykin Chesnut by : Elisabeth S. Muhlenfeld
Download or read book Mary Boykin Chesnut written by Elisabeth S. Muhlenfeld and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1992-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Muhlenfeld traces the life (particularly the last 20 years) of South Carolina socialite and writer Chesnut (1823-1886), best-known today for her excellent firsthand account of life in the Confederate States of America, A Diary from Dixie (republished in 1981 as Mary Chesnut's Civil War). Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Book Synopsis Papers of the Cox and Chesnut Families by : Cox (Family (Camden, S.C.))
Download or read book Papers of the Cox and Chesnut Families written by Cox (Family (Camden, S.C.)) and published by . This book was released on 1792 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mrs. Cox, the wife of John Cox (1732-1793) apparently acted as executrix of her husband's estate; letters following his death in Philadelphia include regular discussion of financial matters. Collection also contains the will of Esther Bowes Cox. Following her death in 1814, letters of March - July 1814 concern the division of her estate among her family.
Book Synopsis Parliamentary Papers by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Download or read book Parliamentary Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Diary from Dixie by : Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut
Download or read book A Diary from Dixie written by Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the author's Civil War diary from February 18, 1861, to June 26, 1865. She was an eyewitness to many historic events as she accompanied her husband to significant sites of the Civil War.
Book Synopsis Beyond the Household by : Cynthia A. Kierner
Download or read book Beyond the Household written by Cynthia A. Kierner and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written about the "southern lady," that pervasive and enduring icon of antebellum regional identity. But how did the lady get on her pedestal--and were the lives of white southern women always so different from those of their northern contemporaries? In her ambitious new book, Cynthia A. Kierner charts the evolution of the lives of white southern women through the colonial, revolutionary, and early republican eras. Using the lady on her pedestal as the end--rather than the beginning--of her story, she shows how gentility, republican political ideals, and evangelical religion successively altered southern gender ideals and thereby forced women to reshape their public roles. Kierner concludes that southern women continually renegotiated their access to the public sphere--and that even the emergence of the frail and submissive lady as icon did not obliterate women's public role.Kierner draws on a strong overall command of early American and women's history and adds to it research in letters, diaries, newspapers, secular and religious periodicals, travelers' accounts, etiquette manuals, and cookery books. Focusing on the issues of work, education, and access to the public sphere, she explores the evolution of southern gender ideals in an important transitional era. Specifically, she asks what kinds of changes occurred in women's relation to the public sphere from 1700 to 1835. In answering this major question, she makes important links and comparisons, across both time and region, and creates a chronology of social and intellectual change that addresses many key questions in the history of women, the South, and early America.
Book Synopsis Accounts and Papers by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
Download or read book Accounts and Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations by : Whitney Nell Stewart
Download or read book Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations written by Whitney Nell Stewart and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With these essays, historians contend that emancipation was not something that simply happened to enslaved peoples but rather something in which they actively participated. Their examination uncovers the various techniques employed by people of African descent across the Atlantic World, allowing a broader picture of their paths to freedom.
Book Synopsis James Chesnut (1773-1866) Papers by : James Chesnut
Download or read book James Chesnut (1773-1866) Papers written by James Chesnut and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chiefly bills and receipts for household and plantation supplies, tax receipts and pew rentals in Bethesda Presbyterian Church and expenses at various plantations including Mulberry, Belmont, Town Creek, and Sandy Hill, estate accounts; including bill, 25 May 1812, from Julia Datty for tuition and board of [Esthur] Serena Chesnut who was a student at an academy in Charleston, S.C.
Book Synopsis Mary Chesnut's Civil War Epic by : Julia A. Stern
Download or read book Mary Chesnut's Civil War Epic written by Julia A. Stern and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A genteel southern intellectual, saloniste, and wife to a prominent colonel in Jefferson Davis’s inner circle, Mary Chesnut today is remembered best for her penetrating Civil War diary. Composed between 1861 and 1865 and revised thoroughly from the late 1870s until Chesnut’s death in 1886, the diary was published first in 1905, again in 1949, and later, to great acclaim, in 1981. This complicated literary history and the questions that attend it—which edition represents the real Chesnut? To what genre does this text belong?—may explain why the document largely has, until now, been overlooked in literary studies. Julia A. Stern’s critical analysis returns Chesnut to her rightful place among American writers. In Mary Chesnut’s Civil War Epic, Stern argues that the revised diary offers the most trenchant literary account of race and slavery until the work of Faulkner and that, along with his Yoknapatawpha novels, it constitutes one of the two great Civil War epics of the American canon. By restoring Chesnut’s 1880s revision to its complex, multidecade cultural context, Stern argues both for Chesnut’s reinsertion into the pantheon of nineteenth-century American letters and for her centrality to the literary history of women’s writing as it evolved from sentimental to tragic to realist forms.
Book Synopsis An Anxious Pursuit by : Joyce E. Chaplin
Download or read book An Anxious Pursuit written by Joyce E. Chaplin and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using public records as well as planters' and farmers' private papers, Chaplin examines innovations in rice, indigo, and cotton cultivation as a window through which to see planters' pursuit of a modern future. She demonstrates that planters actively sought to improve their society and economy even as they suffered a pervasive anxiety about the corrupting impact of progress and commerce. The basis for their accomplishments and the root of their anxieties, according to Chaplin, were the same: race-based chattel slavery. Slaves provided the labor necessary to attain planters' vision of the modern, but the institution ultimately limited the Lower South's ability to compete in the contemporary world.
Book Synopsis The Carolina Backcountry Venture by : Kenneth E. Lewis
Download or read book The Carolina Backcountry Venture written by Kenneth E. Lewis and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2017-04-15 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the transformative economic and social processes that changed a backcountry Southern outpost into a vital crossroads The Carolina Backcountry Venture is a historical, geographical, and archaeological investigation of the development of Camden, South Carolina, and the Wateree River Valley during the second half of the eighteenth century. The result of extensive field and archival work by author Kenneth E. Lewis, this publication examines the economic and social processes responsible for change and documents the importance of those individuals who played significant roles in determining the success of colonization and the form it took. Established to serve the frontier settlements, the store at Pine Tree Hill soon became an important crossroads in the economy of South Carolina's central backcountry and a focus of trade that linked colonists with one another and the region's native inhabitants. Renamed Camden in 1768, the town grew as the backcountry became enmeshed in the larger commercial economy. As pioneer merchants took advantage of improvements in agriculture and transportation and responded to larger global events such as the American Revolution, Camden evolved with the introduction of short staple cotton, which came to dominate its economy as slavery did its society. Camden's development as a small inland city made it an icon for progress and entrepreneurship. Camden was the focus of expansion in the Wateree Valley, and its early residents were instrumental in creating the backcountry economy. In the absence of effective, larger economic and political institutions, Joseph Kershaw and his associates created a regional economy by forging networks that linked the immigrant population and incorporated the native Catawba people. Their efforts formed the structure of a colonial society and economy in the interior and facilitated the backcountry's incorporation into the commercial Atlantic world. This transition laid the groundwork for the antebellum plantation economy. Lewis references an array of primary and secondary sources as well as archaeological evidence from four decades of research in Camden and surrounding locations. The Carolina Backcountry Venture examines the broad processes involved in settling the area and explores the relationship between the region's historical development and the landscape it created.
Book Synopsis Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution Through the Civil War by :
Download or read book Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution Through the Civil War written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
