Mary Chesnut's Civil War
By: edited by C. Vann Woodward
Contributors: Woodward, C. Vann (Comer Vann), 1908-1999; Chesnut, Mary Boykin, 1823-1886
Series: Essential classics of the Civil War
Publisher: Book-of-the-Month Club
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 886
Subjects: Confederate Personal narratives; History; Sources; Biography
Work titles: Civil War
Notes: Selections from this work were previously published under title: A diary from Dixie.

Reprint. Originally published: New Haven : Yale University Press, c1981.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: Road to Montgomery -- -- 2.; title: Nation in the making -- -- 3.; title: "Into the black cloud" -- -- 4.; title: Home front -- -- 5.; title: Waiting for the real war -- -- 6.; title: "First sprightly running" -- -- 7.; title: "Who killed Cock Robin?" -- -- 8.; title: "I am always on the women's side" -- -- 9.; title: Witherspoon murder case -- -- 10.; title: Fall of Port Royal -- -- 11.; title: Politics of war -- -- 13.; title: "With horror and amazement" -- -- 14.; title: "Nothing to chronicle but disasters" -- -- 15.; title: "Fiction is so flat, comparatively" -- -- 16. "In all this death and destruction" -- 17.; title: "Best and the bravest" -- -- 18. "; title: A world kicked to pieces" : memoirs -- -- 19.; title: In spite of blockade" -- -- 20.; title: Between war and peace -- -- 21.; title: "Enjoy the brief hour" -- -- 22.; title: Buck and the wounded knight -- -- 23.; title: "How hardened we grow" -- -- 24.; title: "Blows now fall so fast" -- -- 25.; title: "Is anything worth it?" -- -- 26.; title: President pays a call -- -- 27.; title: "Cassandra wails" -- -- 28.; title: "Listen for Sherman's bugles" -- -- 29.; title: "Thermopylae business" -- -- 30.; title: Refugees in Lubberland -- -- 31.; title: "Job is my comforter" -- -- 32.; title: Keeping ahead of Sherman -- -- 33.; title: "The game is up" -- -- 34.; title: Smoking ruins -- -- 35.; title: Survivors.