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100 1 $aDeCredico, Mary A.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88291729
245 10 $aMary Boykin Chesnut :$ba Confederate woman's life /$cMary A. DeCredico.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aMadison, WI :$bMadison House,$c1996.
263 $a9508
300 $axv, 176 pages :$bportraits ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aAmerican profiles
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tSouthern Daughter: "The World Seemed a Place Where One Could be Very Jolly" --$g2.$tMarriage & Politics: "I Take This Somnolent Life Coolly" --$g3.$t1860-1861: "Lincoln Was Elected and Our Fate Sealed" --$g4.$t1862: "We Have No Breathing Time Given Us" --$g5.$t1863: "Anxiety Pervades" --$g6.$t1864: "The Deep Waters Are Closing Over Us" --$g7.$t1865: "The Grand Smash Has Come" --$g8.$t"Cry Aloud For All That is Past & Gone" --$tEpilogue: The Diary From Dixie.
520 $aBorn into the plantation gentry of South Carolina, granted the advantages of wealth, social position, and education by virtue of her family and her marriage to another prominent South Carolina family, Mary Chesnut has emerged as one of the key figures in American history, but not because of a career, her family, or her involvement in a humanitarian cause. Rather, Chesnut's significance comes from her extensive diary.
520 8 $aHer commentary and reminiscences about the era provide an excellent window into the life and death of the Confederate nation. Her keen insight into political, economic, and social developments makes her an excellent source to understand the Southern homefront during the American Civil War.
520 8 $a. Professor Mary DeCredico uses Chesnut's life to address the role of women in the South; the ideology and leadership of the Southern white elite; and how Southern women in general, and Chesnut in particular, viewed the institution of slavery. Furthermore, DeCredico shows how Mary Chesnut's privileged position gave her an ideal perspective for observing and commenting on the events of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
600 10 $aChesnut, Mary Boykin,$d1823-1886.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80013259
651 0 $aSouth Carolina$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117026
651 0 $aConfederate States of America$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85030833
830 0 $aAmerican profiles (Madison, Wis.)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94014111
852 00 $bbar,stor$hF273.C54$iD43 1996
852 00 $bglx$hF273.C54$iD43 1996
852 00 $boff,glx$hF273.C54$iD43 1996