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Mary Boykin Chesnut

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Gender Female
Death138 years ago
Date of birth March 31,1823
Zodiac sign Aries
Born Stateburg
South Carolina
United States
Date of died November 22,1886
DiedCamden
South Carolina
United States
Spouse James Chesnut Jr.
SiblingsCatherine Boykin Williams
Stephen Decatur Miller, Jr.
Sarah Amelia Boykin
Parents Stephen Decatur Miller
Mary Boykin
Job Author
BooksA 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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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.

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