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Private Mary Chesnut The Unpublished Civil War Diaries
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Book Synopsis The Private Mary Chesnut by : Mary Boykin Chesnut
Download or read book The Private Mary Chesnut written by Mary Boykin Chesnut and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1984 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian C. Vann Woodward and Chesnut's biographer Elisabeth Muhlenfeld present here the previously unpublished Civil War diaries of Mary Boykin Chesnut. The ideal diarist, Mary Chesnut was at the right place at the right time with the right connections. Daughter of one senator from South Carolina and wife of another, she had kin and friends all over the Confederacy and knew intimately its political and military leaders. At Montgomery when the new nation was founded, at Charleston when the war started, and at Richmond during many crises, she traveled extensively during the war. She watched a world "literally kicked to pieces" and left the most vivid account we have of the death throes of a society. The diaries, filled with personal revelations and indiscretions, are indispensable to an appreciation of our most famous Southern literary insight into the Civil War experience.
Book Synopsis Private Mary Chesnut: The Unpublished Civil War Diaries by : Comer Vann Woodward
Download or read book Private Mary Chesnut: The Unpublished Civil War Diaries written by Comer Vann Woodward and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mary Chesnut's Diary by : Mary Boykin Chesnut
Download or read book Mary Chesnut's Diary written by Mary Boykin Chesnut and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unrivalled account of the American Civil War from the Confederate perspective. One of the most compelling personal narratives of the Civil War, Mary Chesnut's Diary was written between 1861 and 1865. As the daughter of a wealthy plantation owner and the wife of an aide to the Confederate President, Jefferson Davis, Chesnut was well acquainted with the Confederacy's prominent players and-from the very first shots in Charleston, South Carolina-diligently recorded her impressions of the conflict's most significant moments. One of the most frequently cited memoirs of the war, Mary Chesnut's Diary captures the urgency and nuance of the period in an epic rich with commentary on race, status, and power within a nation divided. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Book Synopsis A Diary from Dixie by : Mary Boykin Chesnut
Download or read book A Diary from Dixie written by Mary Boykin Chesnut and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 488 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 Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1906 Edition.
Book Synopsis A Diary from Dixie by : Mary Boykin Chesnut
Download or read book A Diary from Dixie written by Mary Boykin Chesnut and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Diary from Dixie by : Mary Chesnut
Download or read book A Diary from Dixie written by Mary Chesnut and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-16 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Diary from Dixie is a famous book by an American writer Mary Boykin Chesnut. Mary Chesnut viewed the events of her time from a position of privilege. She was, in many respects, the archetypal southern lady.A Diary from Dixie is a specific chronicle of the Civil War that was described from within her circle of society. Mary Boykin Chesnut's A Diary from Dixie won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1982.
Book Synopsis Mary Chesnut's Civil War by : Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut
Download or read book Mary Chesnut's Civil War written by Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authorized account of the Civil War, drawn from the diaries of a Southern aristocrat, records the disintegration and final destruction of the Confederacy
Book Synopsis A DIARY FROM DIXIE by : Mary Boykin Chesnut
Download or read book A DIARY FROM DIXIE written by Mary Boykin Chesnut and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Diary from Dixie, As Written by Mary Boykin Chesnut by : Mary Boykin Chesnut
Download or read book A Diary from Dixie, As Written by Mary Boykin Chesnut written by Mary Boykin Chesnut and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Boykin Chesnut kept a famous diary that captured the struggles people experienced during the American Civil War (1861-65; a war between the northern and southern states). Her journal of the war years gives readers an in-depth view of what life was like for Southerners, especially women, during the war.
Book Synopsis Diary from Dixie by : Mary B. Chesnut
Download or read book Diary from Dixie written by Mary B. Chesnut and published by . This book was released on 1992-07-01 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bonded Leather binding
Book Synopsis A Diary from Dixie (Illustrated Edition) by : Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut
Download or read book A Diary from Dixie (Illustrated Edition) written by Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut and published by Echo Library. This book was released on 2020-04 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Boykin Chesnut (nee Miller, 1823-86) was an American author noted for her Civil War diary in which she described the war from within the upper-class circles of Southern planter society she inhabited. She was married to a lawyer who served as a US senator and Confederate officer, and the Chesnuts were family friends of President Jefferson Davis and his wife Varina Howell. They had close ties to the Confederate government, with generals John Bell Hood and Wade Hampton III among their acquaintances, and also many politicians, including John S Preston and Louis T Wigfall and their wives. Chesnut was aware of the historical importance of what she had witnessed and the extensive diary she had kept during the war years, commencing on 18 February 1861 and ending on 26 June 1865, covered the changing fortunes of the South as the war progressed, providing a detailed view of Southern society, the roles of men and women, and the complex situation regarding slavery. She worked on editing the diary from 1881-84, producing new drafts for publication, but it was not until 1905, 19 years after her death, that it was finally published. One of the editors of the published version, Myrta Lockett Avary (1857-1946), was an author and journalist specialising in Southern history, who lived in Atlanta most of her life and contributed to many of its journals. She was also the author of Dixie After the War (1906). Includes 16 black and white illustrations.
Book Synopsis A Diary from Dixie by : Mary Boykin Chesnut
Download or read book A Diary from Dixie written by Mary Boykin Chesnut and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2020-08-12 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into Southern aristocracy, Mary Boykin Chesnut (1823–86) married a rising star of the political scene who ultimately served as an aide to Confederate President Jefferson Davis. As a prominent hostess and popular guest in the highest circles of Confederate society, Chesnut possessed an insider's perspective on many of the Civil War's major events, which she recorded in vivid journal entries. Her diary recounts the social life that struggled to continue in the midst of war, the grim economic conditions that resulted from blockaded ports as well as how people's spirits rose and fell with each victory and defeat. Hailed by William Styron as "a great epic drama of our greatest national tragedy," Chesnut's annotated diary won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1982 and served as a primary source for Ken Burns's celebrated Civil War documentary. This edition of the compelling narrative features photos and engravings from the original publication.
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 336 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 A Diary from Dixie, as Written by Mary Boykin Chesnut, Wife of James Chesnut, Jr., United States Senator from South Carolina, 1859-1861.. by : Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut
Download or read book A Diary from Dixie, as Written by Mary Boykin Chesnut, Wife of James Chesnut, Jr., United States Senator from South Carolina, 1859-1861.. written by Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Lesser Civil Wars by : Marsha R. Robinson
Download or read book Lesser Civil Wars written by Marsha R. Robinson and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-05 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lesser Civil Wars: Civilians Defining War and the Memory of War is an edited volume that surveys three hundred years of the Memory of war and the Will to war in the greater Ohio River Valley and Great Lakes region. Military theorists from von Clausewitz, to Dingiswayo and Chandragupta, calculated the Will of their own soldiers and of the enemy’s soldiers. Sometimes the Will is assigned an erroneously low strength, as Abraham Lincoln learned quickly at the onset of the United States Civil War. In this volume, we examine the civilian production of the national Will to fight future wars through the least civil war – each individual’s war to remember or to forget – and no armistice or accord brings this internal battle to an end. This is not a book about the atrocities committed during war. This is a book about the very nature of the Will-Memory-Will cycle, where the Memory of war continues for generations until a new war requires the resurrection of the Will. As these essays show, sometimes it only takes a few individuals to prosecute these Memory wars with rules of engagement that do not necessarily include civil behavior. By focusing on microhistories from a specific region and by bracketing the US Civil War with an essay about a century prior to it and essays about the century following it, we are able to demonstrate the power and energy of the incubating stage of Memory in the Will-Memory-Will cycle. In the greater Ohio River Valley and Great Lakes region, ordinary civilians controlled and incubated the memories of the Iroquois Wars, the French and Indian/Sevens’ Years War (1756–1763), the American Revolution (1776–1783) and the War of 1812, and they converted Memory into the Will to fight the US Civil War and the Vietnam War. In these chapters, we present micro-wars between civilians over control of the Will of a nation. They are, indeed, lesser civil wars.
Book Synopsis Living Hell by : Michael C. C. Adams
Download or read book Living Hell written by Michael C. C. Adams and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surrounding the war with an aura of nostalgia both fosters the delusion that war can cure our social ills and makes us strong again, and weakens confidence in our ability to act effectively in our own time."—Journal of Military History
