by Isabella D. Martin (Editor), Myrta Lockett Avary (Editor), Mary Boykin Chesnut (Author)

Mary Boykin Chesnut kept a famous diary that captured the struggles people experienced during the American Civil War (1861-65; a war between the northern and southern states). Her journal of the war years gives readers an in-depth view of what life was like for Southerners, especially women, during the war.