As the well-educated and socially skilled wife of a prominent Confederate, Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut (1823-86) was ideally situated--and intellectually equipped--to record the narrative of daily life in the Confederacy during the Civil War. Yet while she is widely recognized for the significant contribution of her -diaries, - Mary Chesnut's other works chronicling her experiences in the Civil War South have remained--until now--unpublished and virtually unknown.
Intensely autobiographical novels, The Captain and the Colonel and Two Years--or The Way We Lived Then are Chesnut's...
As the well-educated and socially skilled wife of a prominent Confederate, Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut (1823-86) was ideally situated--and intellect...
