Mary Chestnut wrote about the events she witnessed while traveling with her husband during the Civil War. Mary Chestnut witnessed and wrote about several historical moments which occurred between the North and the South during this war and her diary was published in 1905 several years after she passed away.
Mary Boykin Chesnut was born in 1823.
Mary Boykin Chesnut died in 1886.
Mary Boykin Chesnut died November 2, 1886
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Mary Chesnut is famous because of the diaries she kept during the Civil war.
Mary Boykin Chesnut was married to James Chesnut. They were South Carolina planters and owned many slaves. Mary deplored the practice of slavery and knew it must end. At the same time, she lived in an economic system that depended upon it.
because she is in the civil war
No she could not have any children
Yes , she was from South Carolina .
from what i learned, she owned slaves
Mary Boykin Chesnut
Mary Boykin Chesnut was born to Mary Boykin Miller and Stephen Decatur Miller. She married James Chesnut Jr., a U.S. Senator and later a Confederate general. The couple did not have any children together, but they were close to their nieces and nephews.