![]() Lively sketches, biting characterizations, entertaining anecdotes, and vivid reflections fill the page.”―Catherine Clinton, The Journal of American History It is by all odds the best of all civil War memoirs, and one of the most remarkable eye-witness accounts to emerge from that or any other war.”―Louis D. ![]() “Here is the rich and full context, as the author herself recreated it. He has reacquainted us with a remarkable woman and she has reacquainted us with the living past.”―Andrew Klavan, Saturday Review Mary Chestnut’s wit and shrewdness, her fierce abhorrence of slavery, her feminist ambitions, maker her observations peculiarly modern. “A painfully brilliant record of our old America at daggers drawn. “Here is a book to curl up with over a whole lifetime―to read and reread, to ponder and savor.”―Selma R. One of the best firsthand records of the Confederate experience. ![]()
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