Pulitzer Prize-winning historian C. Vann Woodward and Chesnut's biographer Elisabeth Muhlenfeld present here the previously unpublished Civil War diaries of Mar

In her diary, Mary Boykin Chesnut, the wife of a Confederate general and aid to president Jefferson Davis, James Chestnut, Jr., presents an eyewitness account o

These short, unfinished novels address a wide range of subjects related to women and serve as an extension of the valuable source material found in the diaries,

An authorized account of the Civil War, drawn from the diaries of a Southern aristocrat, records the disintegration and final destruction of the Confederacy

Historians have given much attention to the Civil War’s prominent players—its generals, politicians, and other public leaders—but they have devoted less a