Mary Boykin Chesnut
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| Gender | Female |
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| Death | 139 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.
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