num_pages: 886
description: An authorized account of the Civil War, for which editor C. Vann Woodward won the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for History, drawn from the diaries of a Southern aristocrat, records the disintegration and final destruction of the Confederacy.
language: English
title: Mary Chesnut's Civil War
titlecomplete: Mary Chesnut's Civil War
characters: Mary Boykin Chesnut
genres: Biography, War, Civil War, Memoir, Nonfiction, American History, 19th Century, Biography Memoir, American Civil War, History
ratings_count: 974
awards: awardedAt: 378720000000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: History, awardedAt: 378720000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: History (Hardcover)
publisher: Yale University Press