Mary Chesnut's Civil War

Mary Chesnut's Civil War
ISBN-10
0300024592
ISBN-13
9780300024593
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
886
Language
English
Published
1981-01-01
Publisher
Yale University Press
Author
Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut

Description

An authorized account of the Civil War, drawn from the diaries of a Southern aristocrat, records the disintegration and final destruction of the Confederacy.

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