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I do not pretend to go to sleep. How can I? If Anderson does not accept terms—at four—the orders are—he shall be fired upon. </br> I count four—St. M… - Mary Boykin Chesnut
" "I do not pretend to go to sleep. How can I? If Anderson does not accept terms—at four—the orders are—he shall be fired upon. </br> I count four—St. Michael chimes. I begin to hope. At half-past four, the heavy booming of a cannon. </br> I sprang out of bed. And on my knees—prostrate—I prayed as I never prayed before.
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About Mary Boykin Chesnut
Mary Boykin Chesnut (née Miller; March 31, 1823 – November 22, 1886) was an American woman noted for the diary she kept during the Civil War and revised shortly before her death. She was married to James Chesnut Jr., a lawyer who served as a United States senator and an officer in the Confederate States Army.
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God forgive us, but ours is a monstrous system, a wrong and an iniquity! Like the patriarchs of old, our men live all in one house with their wives and their concubines; and the mulattoes one sees in every family partly resemble the white children. Any lady is ready to tell you who is the father of all the mulatto children in everybody’s household but her own. Those, she seems to think, drop from the clouds.
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