What nonsense I write here. However, this journal is intend… - Mary Boykin Chesnut

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What nonsense I write here. However, this journal is intended to be entirely objective. My subjective days are over. No more silent eating into my own heart, making my own misery, when without these morbid fantasies I could be so happy.

Mary Boykin Chesnut

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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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Birth Name: Mary Boykin Miller

Alternative Names: Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut

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Our battle [summer]]. May it be our first and our last. So-called. After all, we have not had any of the horrors of war.

And all the time they seem to think themselves patterns — models of husbands and fathers.

My father was a South Carolina nullifier, governor of the state at the time of the nullification row, and then U.S. senator. So I was of necessity a rebel born.

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