Helpful Score: 1
This is a fascinating peek into the lives of Confederate citizens during the Civil War. Mary Boykin Chesnut is a brilliant, and quite an important woman of the Confederacy. She writes about the love,tears,joys, jokes,gossip,and news between the years 1860- August, 1865. Mary shares her inmost feelings and is very genuine in her writings. I have totally enjoyed my time travel into the old Dixie!
I found this book a bit boring at times. Mary spoke of people and things that seemed frivolous at times. The writing at the time was a bit hard to understand at times even for this educated person. I found the last few chapers most interesting. The book could have been shortened even more than the original diaries because of some of the frivolous content. I feel the editors could have done a much better job of attempting to explain what and to whom Mary Chestnut was refering. It would have been better to have put more information as footnotes or even follow up chapters.
