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    Mary Boykin Chesnut (née Miller; March 31, 1823 – November 22, 1886) was an American writer noted for a book published as her Civil War diary, a "vivid...
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    Mulberry Plantation, also known as the James and Mary Boykin Chesnut House is a historic plantation at 559 Sumter Highway (United States Route 521) south...
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    Brigadier-General. Chesnut returned to law practice after the war. His wife was Mary Boykin Chesnut, whose published diaries reflect the Chesnuts' busy social...
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  • and general Jerry Chesnut (1931–2018), American songwriter Mary Boykin Chesnut (1823–1886), South Carolina author Victor King Chesnut (1867–1938), American...
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  • Mary Chesnut's Civil War is an annotated collection of the diaries of Mary Boykin Chesnut, an upper-class planter who lived in South Carolina during the...
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    Muhlenfeld, Mary Boykin Chesnut, chapter 2. "Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box – Quote Investigator". 9 April 2018. Muhlenfeld, Mary Boykin Chesnut, chapter...
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  • of history Mary Durack Miller (1913–1994), Australian author and historian Mary Boykin Chesnut (née Miller, 1823–1886), American diarist Mary Miller Glasscock...
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    ironwork and wood balustrade. It was the home of General James Chesnut, Jr. and Mary Boykin Chesnut during the American Civil War period. In the fall of 1864...
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    Society Papers 3, no. 5–6 (June 1877): 271 Mary Boykin Chesnut, A Diary from Dixie As Written by Mary Boykin Chesnut (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1905)...
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  • High School (Mulberry, Florida), USA Mulberry Plantation (James and Mary Boykin Chesnut House), Camden, South Carolina, USA, on the National Register of...
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  • Stonewall Jackson, and Frederick Douglass, as well as diaries by Mary Boykin Chesnut, Samuel R. Watkins, Elisha Hunt Rhodes and George Templeton Strong...
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    480. Cooper 2000, p. 595. Strode (1964), pp. 527–28. Chesnut, Mary Boykin (1981). Mary Chesnut's Civil War. Yale University Press. p. 800. ISBN 978-0300029796...
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    to Work, Hearts to God (1984), and most notably Southern diarist Mary Boykin Chesnut for Burns' 1990 series The Civil War. In the summer of 2008, she...
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  • Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-684-87102-5. Elisabeth Muhlenfeld (1992). Mary Boykin Chesnut: A Biography. LSU Press. p. 18. ISBN 0-8071-1804-4. Robin Van Auken;...
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  • Studio/Clark Mills; Mulberry Plantation (James and Mary Boykin Chesnut House)/Mary Boykin Chesnut; Woodlands/William Gilmore Simms Numbers represent an...
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    Independence, A. D. 1776. Vol. X. Albany, N.Y.: Joel Munsell's Sons. pp. 110–111. 1. A Diary from Dixie, Mary Boykin Chesnut, (2006) p 171-172 v t e v t e...
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    1993, pp. 82–83. Kolchin, American Slavery, p. 81. Chesnut, Mary Boykin (1981). Mary Chesnut's Civil War. Yale University Press. p. 29. ISBN 9780300029796...
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    on the ladies of the Confederacy. In August 1863, famous diarist Mary Boykin Chesnut wrote of Hood: When Hood came with his sad Quixote face, the face...
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    and others associated with President Woodrow Wilson, Maxcy Gregg, Mary Boykin Chesnut, and noted free black Celia Mann. In the early 1970s, the University...
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  • National Library of Wales. Retrieved 13 December 2021. Mary A. DeCredico (1 June 1996). Mary Boykin Chesnut: A Confederate Woman's Life. Rowman & Littlefield...
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  • of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (d. 1901) 1823 – Mary Boykin Chesnut, American author (d. 1886) 1833 – Mary Abigail Dodge, American writer and essayist (d...
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    Davy Crockett, John Sutter, Henry Clay, Alice Cary, Mary Boykin Chesnut, Thomas Campbell, Mary E. Hewitt and Caroline E. S. Norton. Rodman McCamley Price...
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  • almost 30 writers, including Ambrose Bierce, George Washington Cable, Mary Boykin Chesnut, Kate Chopin, John William De Forest (who, as American historian...
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  • politician, 18th Vice President of the United States (b. 1812) 1886 – Mary Boykin Chesnut, American author (b. 1823) 1896 – George Washington Gale Ferris Jr...
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  • Richard H. Anderson, born in Stateburg, Confederate Army general Mary Boykin Chesnut, born in Stateburg, daughter of Stephen Decatur Miller and author...
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    beneficent drug for allaying the pangs of moral discontent. In Mary Boykin Chesnut's Civil War Diary, whist was the most frequently played card game...
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  • Rhoda Broughton – A Waif's Progress Willa Cather – The Troll Garden Mary Boykin Chesnut – A Diary from Dixie G. K. Chesterton – The Club of Queer Trades...
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  • (1890–1958), American World War II General, head of the Flying Tigers Mary Boykin Chesnut (1823–1886), American who described life in South Carolina in the...
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    Plantation (Camden, South Carolina). The plantation is associated with Mary Boykin Chesnut (1823-1886), whose Civil War diary preserves important insight into...
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    Pinewood. Mary Boykin Chesnut, author of A Diary from Dixie, was born in Stateburg, the daughter of Stephen Decatur Miller and his wife, Mary Boykin. Richard...
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