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Language: en
Pages: 348
Pages: 348
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
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Language: en
Pages: 612
Pages: 612
Type: BOOK - Published: 1980 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
In her diary, Mary Boykin Chesnut, the wife of a Confederate general and aid to president Jefferson Davis, James Chestnut, Jr., presents an eyewitness account o
Language: en
Pages: 852
Pages: 852
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Regarded by many critics as Edmund Wilson's greatest book, Patriotic Gore brilliantly portrays the vast political, spiritual, and material crisis of the Civil W
Language: en
Pages: 964
Pages: 964
Type: BOOK - Published: 1981-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press
An authorized account of the Civil War, drawn from the diaries of a Southern aristocrat, records the disintegration and final destruction of the Confederacy
Language: en
Pages: 324
Pages: 324
Type: BOOK - Published: 1984 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian C. Vann Woodward and Chesnut's biographer Elisabeth Muhlenfeld present here the previously unpublished Civil War diaries of Mar
