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Mary Chesnut's Civil War

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Mary Chesnut's Civil War
AuthorMary Boykin Chesnut, annotations by C. Vann Woodward
Genrehistory
PublisherYale University Press
Publication date
1981
Publication placeUnited States
Pages892
AwardsPulitzer Prize for History
ISBN978-0300029796

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 American Civil War.[1] The diaries were extensively annotated by historian C. Vann Woodward and published by Yale University Press in 1981. For his work on the book, Woodward was awarded the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for History.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Chesnut, Mary Boykin (1823–1886)". Dictionary of Women Worldwide.  – via HighBeam Research (subscription required) . Archived from the original on March 26, 2016. Retrieved December 8, 2012.
  2. ^ Richard Pearson (December 19, 1999). "Historian C. Vann Woodward Dies at 91". The Washington Post.  – via HighBeam Research (subscription required) . Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved December 8, 2012.