Mary Chesnut, wife of U.S. Sen ... about their concerns that this important historical record would end up in private hands or, even worse, bought by someone who would sell the photos off ...

Acclaimed diarist and wife of one of South Carolina's leading politicians, Mary Chesnut used her intellect and social status to chronicle the events and personalities of the war. Her close ...

Several original documents relating to her life and the war were shown and an actor portraying Mary Chesnut spoke. Guests examined the social, political, and military history of the Civil War era ...

She attended private schools in Camden and Charleston ... An annotated edition with a biographical essay, "Mary Chesnut's Civil War," edited by C. Vann Woodward (1981), was awarded the 1982 Pulitzer ...