TITLE:
A diary from Dixie : the Civil War's most celebrated jounal / written 1860-1865 by the wife of James Chesnut, Jr., an aide to President Jefferson Davis and a brigadier-genaral in the Confederte Army, a facsimile of the 1905 edition edited by Isabella D. Martin and Myrta Lockett Avary.
Publication Date:
1997
Publication Information:
New York : Gramercy Books,
Physical Description:
424 p.
Genre:
Summary:
This original diary of the wife of Confederate General James Chestnut, Jr., who was also an aide to President Jefferson Davis, provides an eyewitness narrative of all the years of the war. Period photographs illustrate this you-are-there account of the daily lives and tribulations of all who suffered through the war, from ordinary people to the Confederacy's generals and political figures.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780517182666
