Mary Boykin Chesnut is one of the most important voices of the American Civil War with her unique perspective from inside Confederate halls of power. Her husband James Chesnut, Jr, served in the South Carolina legislature, and in 1858 was elected to the U.S. Senate. He resigned from office after Lincoln's 1860 win, then returned south to help draft the ordinance of secession and attend the First Confederate Congress. He was a close aide to Jefferson Davis for much of the war as history unfolded.
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
24 March 1864, comic relief
"Miss Page Waller married Captain Leigh Page the other day. Now she is Mrs Page Page. Someone said she had turned over a new leaf—still, she was the same Page."
