A Diary From Dixie (1905) - Couverture souple

A cnro PA oa Mb8. JAMES CHESNUT, Jr Frontispiece From a Portrait in Oil. Reproduced by oourtegy of the owner, Mr. David R. Willisans, of Camden, S. C. A PAGE OF THE DIARY IN FACSIMILE .. .. xxii THE OLD BAPTIST CHURCH IN COLUMBIA, S. C. .. 4H ere First Met the South Carolina Secession Convention. VIEW OF CHARLESTON DURING THE WAR ... 22 From an Old Print. FORT SUMTER UNDER BOMBARDMENT .... 38 From an Old Print. A GROUP OF CONFEDERATE GENERALS ... 94 Robert E. Lee, Joseph E. Johnston, Albert Sidney Johnston, Stonewall Jackson, John B. Hood, and Pierre G. T. Beauregard. MULBERRY HOUSE, NEAR CAMDEN, S. C. ..128 From a Recent Photograph. A GROUP OF CONFEDERATE WOMEN .... 148 Mrs. Jefferson Davis, Mrs. Francis W. Pickens, Mrs. Louisa S. Mc Cord, Miss S. B. C. Preston, Mrs. David R. Williams (the authors sister Kate), Miss I sabella D. Martin. ANOTHER GROUP OF CONFEDERATE GENERALS .230 Robert Toombs, John H. Morgan, John C. Preston, Joseph B. Kershaw, James Chesnut, Jr., Wade Hampton.
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Excerpt from A Diary From Dixie

In Mrs. Chesnut's Diary are vivid pictures of the social life that went on uninterruptedly in the midst of war; of the economic conditions that resulted from blockaded ports; of the manner in which the spirits of the people rose and fell with each victory or defeat, and of the momentous events that took place in Charleston, Montgomery, and Richmond. But the Diary has an importance quite apart from the interest that lies in these pictures.

Mrs. Chesnut was close to forty years of age when the war began, and thus had lived through the most stirring scenes in the controversies that led to it. In this Diary, as perhaps nowhere else in the literature of the war, will be found the Southern spirit of that time expressed in words which are not alone charming as literature, but genuinely human in their spontaneousness, their delightfully unconscious frankness. Her words are the farthest possible removed from anything deliberate, academic, or purely intellectual. They ring so true that they start echoes. The most uncompromising Northern heart can scarcely fail to be moved by their abounding sincerity, surcharged though it be with that old Southern fire which overwhelmed the army of McDowell at Bull Run.

In making more clear the unyielding tenacity of the South and the stern conditions in which the war was prosecuted, the Diary has further importance.

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