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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| Mary Chesnut’s Civil War canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
annotated edition
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book ⓘ historical document ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Civil War historiography
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Southern United States history ⓘ |
| basedOn | Mary Boykin Chesnut’s Civil War diary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfPublication |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| editorAffiliation | C. Vann Woodward as historian of the American South ⓘ |
| editorContribution |
annotation
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historical contextualization ⓘ selection and organization of diary material ⓘ |
| editorRoleOf | C. Vann Woodward NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
diary
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history ⓘ memoir ⓘ primary source ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | Mary Boykin Chesnut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEditor | C. Vann Woodward NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
contextual essays
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extensive footnotes ⓘ historical commentary ⓘ scholarly introduction ⓘ |
| hasForm | annotated text ⓘ |
| hasReputation |
classic of Civil War literature
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critically acclaimed ⓘ major primary source on the Confederate home front ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
important source on gender and class in the Civil War South
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key source for understanding Confederate civilian experience ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm |
edited diary
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nonfiction ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| portrays |
Confederate military events
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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
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South Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subject |
American Civil War
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Confederate States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ Southern society ⓘ slavery in the United States ⓘ women in war ⓘ |
| timePeriodCovered | 1861–1865 ⓘ |
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