Mary Boykin Chesnut
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Gender | Female |
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Death | 138 years ago |
Date of birth | March 31,1823 |
Zodiac sign | Aries |
Born | Stateburg |
South Carolina | |
United States | |
Date of died | November 22,1886 |
Died | Camden |
South Carolina | |
United States | |
Spouse | James Chesnut Jr. |
Siblings | Catherine Boykin Williams |
Stephen Decatur Miller, Jr. | |
Sarah Amelia Boykin | |
Parents | Stephen Decatur Miller |
Mary Boykin | |
Job | Author |
Books | A diary from Dixie |
Mary Chesnut's Civil War | |
The private Mary Chesnut | |
A Diary from Dixie, as Written by Mary Boykin Chesnut, Wife of James Chesnut, Jr. , United States Senator from South Carolina, 1859-1861. . | |
Two novels | |
A Diary from Dixie, as Written by Mary Boykin Chesnut, Wife of James Chesnut, Jr. , United States Senator from South Carolina, 1859-1861. . (1906) | |
Two Diaries from Women of the Confederacy: The Diaries of Belle Edmondson & Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut | |
A Diary from Dixie and the War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865 | |
A Diary from Dixie: The Civil War's Most Celebrated Journal, Written 1860-1865 by the Wife of James Chesnut, Jr. , an Aide to President Jefferson Davis and a Brigadier-general in the Confederate Army | |
Current partner | James Chesnut Jr. |
Known for | Civil War |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 481396 |
Mary Boykin Chesnut Life story
Mary Boykin Chesnut was an American author noted for a book published as her Civil War diary, a "vivid picture of a society in the throes of its life-and-death struggle." She described the war from within her upper-class circles of Southern slaveowner society, but encompassed all classes in her book.