Mary Chesnut's Civil War by Mary Chesnut Editor C. Vann Woodward 1981 Yale University Press Civil War Memoirs Civil War history books
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This is a very good larger paperback. 1981 Yale University Press. This copy is very good inside and out. The pages are actually still crisp and clean w no markings seems. The binding is tight and straight, NO creasing along spine. The cover front and back is still clean and shiny with only light shelf wear. Larger paperback, medium octave book size or 6" x 9" with 866 pages including index.
Married to a high-ranking member of the Confederate government, Mary Chesnut was in an ideal place to watch and record the Civil War and the South's plunge into ruin. Her journals contain an unsurpassed amount of detail and information as the war unfolded. C. Vann Woodward provides the full and reliable account of her journals, making use of surviving parts of 4 manuscript versions. He restores significant passages from the original diary of the 1860's, which was written in the heat of the moment and revealed much that the author suppressed in the previous versions intended for publication.
Definitive citizens view of the Civil War as it unfolded and progressed into chaos. This book was the winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize in History.
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