Mary Chesnut’s Civil War

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Mary Chesnut’s Civil War is a critically acclaimed annotated edition of Mary Boykin Chesnut’s Civil War diary, edited and contextualized by historian C. Vann Woodward.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf annotated edition
book
historical document
associatedWith Civil War historiography
Southern United States history
basedOn Mary Boykin Chesnut’s Civil War diary NERFINISHED
countryOfPublication United States of America
surface form: United States
editorAffiliation C. Vann Woodward as historian of the American South
editorContribution annotation
historical contextualization
selection and organization of diary material
editorRoleOf C. Vann Woodward NERFINISHED
genre diary
history
memoir
primary source
hasAuthor Mary Boykin Chesnut NERFINISHED
hasEditor C. Vann Woodward NERFINISHED
hasFeature contextual essays
extensive footnotes
historical commentary
scholarly introduction
hasForm annotated text
hasReputation classic of Civil War literature
critically acclaimed
major primary source on the Confederate home front
historicalSignificance important source on gender and class in the Civil War South
key source for understanding Confederate civilian experience
language English
literaryForm edited diary
nonfiction
narrativePerspective first-person
portrays Confederate military events
Confederate political leadership
elite Southern women
enslaved people’s conditions
plantation life
relatedWork Mary Boykin Chesnut’s original Civil War diary NERFINISHED
setting Confederate capital Richmond, Virginia NERFINISHED
South Carolina NERFINISHED
subject American Civil War NERFINISHED
Confederate States of America NERFINISHED
Southern society
slavery in the United States
women in war
timePeriodCovered 1861–1865

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C. Vann Woodward notableWork Mary Chesnut’s Civil War