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Mary Chesnut's Civil War /

Other Title:
Civil War
Authors:
Woodward, C. Vann, Chesnut, Mary Boykin,
Other Authors:
Woodward, C. Vann (Comer Vann), 1908-1999.
Item ID:
71201700100279
Publisher:
New York : Book-of-the-Month Club, 1994.
Series:
Essential classics of the Civil War; Essential classics of the Civil War.
Call Number:
E487
Physical Description:
lviii, 886 pages, [10] pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm.
Topic:
Chesnut, Mary Boykin, 1823-1886.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate.
Confederate States of America -- History -- Sources.
Southern States -- Biography.
Note:
Selections from this work were previously published under title: A diary from Dixie.; Reprint. Originally published: New Haven : Yale University Press, �1981.; Includes index.; An account of the Civil War, drawn from the diaries of a Southern aristocrat, records the disintegration and final destruction of the Confederacy.; 1. Road to Montgomery -- 2. Nation in the making -- 3. "Into the black cloud" -- 4. Home front -- 5. Waiting for the real war -- 6. "First sprightly running" -- 7. "Who killed Cock Robin?" -- 8. "I am always on the women's side" -- 9. Witherspoon murder case -- 10. Fall of Port Royal -- 11. "Provincial sloth" -- 12. Politics of war -- 13. "With horror and amazement" -- 14. "Nothing to chronicle but disasters" -- 15. "Fiction is so flat, comparatively" -- 16. "In all this death and destruction" -- 17. "Best and the bravest" -- 18." A world kicked to pieces" : memoirs -- 19. In spite of blockade" -- 20. Between war and peace -- 21. "Enjoy the brief hour" -- 22. Buck and the wounded knight -- 23. "How hardened we grow" -- 24. "Blows now fall so fast" -- 25. "Is anything worth it?" -- 26. President pays a call -- 27. "Cassandra wails" -- 28. "Listen for Sherman's bugles" -- 29. "Thermopylae business" -- 30. Refugees in Lubberland -- 31. "Job is my comforter" -- 32. Keeping ahead of Sherman -- 33. "The game is up" -- 34. Smoking ruins -- 35. Survivors.; Includes bibliographical references and index.; Dr. Allen Wayne Aldred Memorial Collection.
OCLC Number:
ocm31231135
Holding Institution:
Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Available for Viewing:
By appointment only
Category:
Books & Pamphlets