A diary from Dixie
By: as written by Mary Boykin Chestnut, wife of James Chestnut, jr., United States senator from South Carolina, 1859-1861, and afterward an aide to Jefferson Davis and brigadier-general in the Confederate army ; ed. by Isabella D. Martin and Myrta Lockett Avary.
Contributors: Martin, Isabella D.; Avary, Myrta Lockett.
Publisher: D. Appleton and Company
Published: 1905
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
Subjects: Chesnut, Mary Boykin Miller, 1823-1886; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate; Confederate States of America -- History -- Sources; Southern States -- Biography
Genres: Personal narratives, Confederate.
Description: 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.