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A Diary from Dixie

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In Mary Boykin Chesnut
…Carolina) was the author of A Diary from Dixie, an insightful view of Southern life and leadership during the American Civil War (1861–65), told from an upper-class perspective. The work has led some to call Chesnut “the preeminent writer of the Confederacy.”
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