How did Mary Chesnut contribute to the Civil War?

In February 1861 Mary began a diary that recorded the explosive happenings around her during the years of the Civil War. Following her husband on his duties in the South, she provides a firsthand view of the political world of the Confederacy (the name for the Southern states that had seceded and fought as a group).

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Correspondingly, what did Mary Chesnut do?

Mary Boykin Chesnut (née Miller) (March 31, 1823 – November 22, 1886) was an American author 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 planter society, but

Beside above, when did Mary Chesnut die? November 22, 1886

Then, did Mary Chesnut have children?

In April 1840, she married Chesnut, eight years her senior and the scion of another prominent South Carolina political family. The Chesnuts had no children, so upon Mary's death in 1886, the diary passed to her closest friend, Isabella D. Martin, who received the family's blessing to seek publication.

Why was Mary Chesnut's diary so valuable?

Although not a day-by-day account, A Diary is regarded highly by historians for its perceptive views of Confederate military and political leaders and for its insight into Southern society during the Civil War. An annotated edition with a biographical essay, Mary Chesnut's Civil War, ed.

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