A Diary from Dixie (Paperback)

from lamour

What a fascinating memoir by a woman who lived in the South during the turmoil of the Civil War. We are given insight into how the progress of the War was perceived by Southerners. Chestnut was close friends with Jefferson Davis and his wife, General Hood, Custis Lee and other notables of the Sou...

from josmith16

This book was very good. I am an avid reader and among my interest is first hand accounts of the civil war. Mary Chestnut does a good job through the words in her diary presenting an account of the war from inside the circles of the Confederate's presidency. She expresses how slavery was truly re...

from MrsLee

This was an excellent example of journal writing. She was an interesting woman who had interesting friends. She wrote about the Civil War from the secession to the carpetbaggers, not as an historian, but as a person living there and how it all affected her each day. She had a lively wit, which ma...