Mary Boykin Chesnut diaries collection 1817-1979

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Mary Boykin Chesnut diaries collection 1817-1979

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1263

The collection consists of photoduplicates of original Mary Chesnut manuscripts, from the South Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina and from private owners, collected by C. Vann Woodward for the preparation of his book, Mary Chesnut's Civil War.

11 linear feet (15 boxes)

eng,

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6351211

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Chesnut, Mary Boykin Miller, 1823-1886

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Woodward, C. Vann (Comer Vann), 1908-1999.

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Historian. From the description of Reminiscences of C. Vann Woodward : oral history, 1969. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122419190 C. Vann Woodward was born in Vanndale, Arkansas, on November 13, 1908. He received his Ph.B. from Emory University in 1930; his M.A. from Columbia University in 1932; and his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina in 1937. He began his professional career as an assistant professor of history at the Univer...