Mary Boykin Chesnut
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Mary Boykin Chesnut: A Biography
By Elisabeth S. MuhlenfeldA Biography Elisabeth S. Muhlenfeld. Jervey, Elizabeth H. “Marriage and Death Notices from the City Gazette of Charleston, ... Clinton, S.C.: Jacobs Brothers, 1963. Junior League of Charleston. Historic Charleston Guidebook.
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Mary Boykin Chesnut: A Confederate Woman's Life
By Mary A. DeCredicoBorn into the plantation gentry of South Carolina, granted the advantages of wealth, social position, and education by virtue of her family and her marriage to another prominent South Carolina family, Mary Chesnut has emerged as one of the ...
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Mary Boykin Chesnut: A Biography
By Elisabeth S. Muhlenfeld2 By the first of February six more states had joined South Carolina, and the Chesnuts went on to Montgomery to a hastily called convention of seceded states. The tense excitement that vibrated the very air of her world registered ...
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Mary Boykin Chesnut: A Confederate Woman's Life
By Mary A. DeCredicoChesnut's keen insight into political, economic, and social developments makes her an excellent source to understand the Southern homefront during the Civil War.
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Mary Boykin Chesnut: A Biography
By Elisabeth S. MuhlenfeldBesides adding to our knowledge of this unusual nineteenth-century southern woman, Mary Boykin Chesnut: A Biography enhances our knowledge of the history of women in general as it delineates the transformation of a wartime diary into the ...