Mary Boykin Chesnut
Mary Boykin Chesnut (née Miller) (March 31, 1823 – November 22, 1886), was an American author from South Carolina noted for a book published as her Civil War diary, a "vivid picture of a society in the throes of its life-and-death struggle."
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