Famed Confederate Diarist Mary Chesnut’s Home Up For Sale. Only $950,000

(Wonder if they” take a personal check? – DD)

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(History.Net) There are hundreds of published primary sources of soldiers, civilians, and politicians, but the massive diary kept by South Carolinian Mary Chesnut (1823-1886), published as Mary Chesnut’s Civil War in 1981, remains a classic must-read of its genre. Mary, the wife of South Carolina politician and officer James Chesnut, knew and interacted with the Confederacy’s elite…

You can own the Columbia, S.C., home the Chesnuts lived in for periods during the war, and where she wrote a part of her diary. The six-bedroom house was built in…

Famed Confederate Diarist’s Home Up For Sale for $950,000