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Mary Chesnut's Illustrated Diary: Mulberry Edition (2 Volume Set)
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About Mary Chesnut's Illustrated Diary: Mulberry Edition
Product Description The famous diarist Mary Chesnut recorded the events and her reflections on the Civil War and its leading personalities from within the aristocratic circles of Southern society. Reproduced here, Chesnut's famous diary is accompanied by a collection of painstakingly annotated personal photographs never before published, and some that have never before been seen. This exquisitely produced two-volume work includes Mary Chesnut's diary, which was originally published 40 years after the Civil War, and her personal photo albums. Thought to be lost or stolen since the 1930s, the albums were only just rediscovered in 2007. An astonishing historical treasure, the photographs are annotated with information about each person depicted and edited by Chesnut's family. Photographs range from many of Jefferson Davis and other famous military leaders and statesmen to those within Chesnut's social circle: Gen. Wade Hampton III and his family including the Preston girls- and their suitors Gen. John Bell Hood and battlefield surgeon, Maj. John T. Darby; literary figures, such as writer Alexander Dumas; and many more individuals, including young soldiers of the elite Charleston Light Dragoons, Elizabeth Allston Pringle - the 'woman rice planter' of South Carolina, and Baltimore spy Hetty Cary. Review "The photograph album will afford both Chesnut scholars, students of American culture and literature, and Civil War buffs alike an absolute treasure trove of primary source material to study and celebrate. In this two-volume collection, Daniels reanimates Chesnut's ambition to share her epic view of the great tragedy of Civil War as we never have seen it vivified before." --Julia Stern, Northwestern University, author of "Mary Chesnut's Civil War Epic" "An engrossing work! I was fascinated by the saga of the cartes de visite . . . this conveys the excitement of the hunt, and more importantly it is clear to me that Chesnut's careful amassing of these photographs evidences the seriousness over many years with which she worked on a publishable version of her journals." --Elisabeth Muhlenfeld, biographer of Mary Chesnut, former president of Sweet Briar College, chairman of the American Civil War Center From the Publisher Title: Mary Chesnut's Illustrated Diary Mulberry Edition Boxed Set Subtitle: Volume 1: A Diary from Dixie and Volume 2: Mary Chesnut's Civil War Photograph Album Volume 1 author: Mary Boykin Chesnut Volume 1 foreword: Martha M. Daniels Volume 2 authors: Martha M. Daniels and Barbara E. McCarthy Volume 2 foreword: James Everett Kibler From the Inside Flap Mary Chesnut left a great gift to the world. Her diaries describe in vivid detail the depth of the Southern spirit. For the first time, this historic narrative is presented with her personal photograph albums depicting clearly the men and women about whom she wrote. Thought to have been lost or stolen since the 1930s, the albums were rediscovered and acquired by her family in 2007.These albums include an amazing collection of more than two hundred wartime photographs filled with images of the leading figures of both the North and South, along with many of their wives and family members. Further photographs, collected for years after the war, continue to provide an astonishing historical treasure. For this volume, each photograph has been extensively researched, annotated, and edited by Martha M. Daniels, a member of the Chesnut family and head of the family foundation, and Barbara E. McCarthy, Mulberry's assistant archivist. Many of these images have never before been published and some have never been seen outside of the family. This collection provides, for the first time, a visual companion guide to the characters in Mary Chesnut's famous diary. Presented in this edition with a foreword by noted writer and historian, James Everett Kibler. From the Back Cover Mary Chesnut's diary was chosen by the Wall Street Journal as one of the five most importa
