A diary from Dixie
By: by Mary Boykin Chesnut ; with a foreword by Edmund Wilson ; edited by Ben Ames Williams.
Contributors: Williams, Ben Ames, 1889-1953.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 572
Subjects: Chesnut, Mary Boykin Miller, 1823-1886 -- Diaries.; Confederate States of America -- History -- Sources.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate.; Southern States -- Biography.
Description: In her diary, Mary Boykin Chesnut, the wife of a Confederate general and aid to president Jefferson Davis, James Chestnut, Jr., presents an eyewitness account of the Civil War.
Notes: Reprint of the 1949 ed. published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
Includes index.