Mary Chesnut's Civil War
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The incomparable Civil War diarist Mary Chesnut wrote that she had the luck “always to stumble in on the real show.”
Married to a high-ranking member of the Confederate government, she was ideally placed to watch and to record the South’s headlong plunge to ruin, and she left in her journals an unsurpassed account of the old regime’s death throes, its moment of high drama in world history.
With intelligence and passion, she described the turbulent events of politics and war, as well as the complex society around her. In her own circles, the aristocratic, patriarchal, slave-holding Mary Chesnut was a figure of heresy and of paradox: she had a horror of slavery and called herself an abolitionist from early youth.
Edited by the eminent historian C. Vann Woodward, Mary Chesnut’s Civil War presents a full and reliable edition of Chesnut’s journals, restoring her to her rightful place in American history and literature.
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Mary Boykin Chesnut (1823–1886) was an American writer 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.” She described the war from within her upper-class circles of Southern slaveowner society but that encompassed all classes in her book.
Suzanne Toren, award-winning narrator, has over thirty years of experience in narration. She was named a “Golden Voice” by AudioFile magazine in 2019. She has won the American Foundation for the Blind’s Scourby Award for Narrator of the Year, AudioFile magazine named her the 2009 Best Voice in Nonfiction & Culture, and she is the recipient of multiple Earphones Awards. She performs on and off Broadway and in regional theaters and has appeared on Law & Order and in various soap operas.
C. Vann Woodward (1908–1999) was a renowned American historian and the author of many books, including Origins of the New South, 1877–1913, Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction, The Strange Career of Jim Crow, The Battle for Leyte Gulf, and Thinking Back: The Perils of Writing History.
