Mary Boykin Miller was the daughter of American politician Stephen Decatur Miller and an ardent supporter of the Confederate States of America. - AsNotedIn
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| 1823/03/31 | Mary Boykin Miller is born at Pleasant Hill Plantation in Stateburg, South Carolina, the eldest child of Mary Boykin and Senator Stephen Decatur Miller. | Born | Stateburg | South Carolina | |||
| 1836/00/00 | At the age of about 13, Mary Boykin Miller is sent to Madame Talvande's French School for Young Ladies, a boarding school in Charleston. | Education | Sword Gate Houses | Charleston, SC | |||
| 1840/04/23 | Mary Boykin Miller marries James Chesnut Jr. At first, the couple will live with his parents and sisters at Mulberry plantation near Camden, South Carolina. | Home | Mulberry Plantation (Chesnut House) | Camden, SC | |||
| 1860/11/08 | On the train, just before we reached Fernandina, a woman called out: "That settles the hash." Tanny touched me on the shoulder and said: "Lincoln's elected." "How do you know?" "The man over there has a telegram." - MBC | Life | Mary Chesnut's Civil War (book) | Fernandina Beach, FL | Florida | Election of President Abraham Lincoln | |
| 1860/11/08 | At Fernandina I saw young men running up a Palmetto flag, and shouting a little prematurely, "South Carolina has seceded!" I was overjoyed to find Florida so sympathetic.... - MBC | Life | Mary Chesnut's Civil War (book) | Fernandina Beach Historic District | Fernandina Beach, FL | ||
| 1861/05/13 | We have been down from Montgomery on the boat to that God-forsaken landing, Portland, Ala. Found everybody drunk - that is, the three men who were there. - MBC, Portland Public Use Area is on Cnty Rd 225, north of Hwy 41. | Family | Mary Chesnut's Civil War (book) | Elm Bluff, AL | Alabama | ||
| 1861/07/06 | Mr Brewster came here with us. The cars were jammed with soldiers to the muzzle. They were very polite and considerate, and we had an agreeable journey, in spite of heat, dust, and crowd. Rev Robert Barnwell was with us. - MBC | Life | Mary Chesnut's Civil War (book) | Warrenton, VA | Virginia | ||
| 1861/07/06 | Mr Brewster came here with us. The cars were jammed with soldiers to the muzzle. They were very polite and considerate, and we had an agreeable journey, in spite of heat, dust and crowd. Rev Robert Barnwell was with us. - MBC | Guest | Mary Chesnut's Civil War (book) | Fauquier Springs Country Club | Warrenton, VA | ||
| 1864/07/25 | Now we are in a cottage rented from Doctor Chisolm.... We moved into this house on the 20th of July. My husband was telegraphed to go to Charleston. General Jones sent for him. A part of his command is on the coast. - MBC | Home | Mary Chesnut's Civil War (book) | Chesnut Cottage | Columbia, SC | ||
| 1864/10/05 | Mrs Preston sent a boned turkey stuffed with truffles, stuffed tomatoes, and stuffed peppers. Each made a dish as pretty as it was appetizing. - MBC | Guest | Mary Chesnut's Civil War (book) | Chesnut Cottage | Columbia, SC | Truffle | |
| 1864/10/05 | Mrs Preston sent a boned turkey stuffed with truffles, stuffed tomatoes, and stuffed peppers. Each made a dish as pretty as it was appetizing. - MBC | Guest | Mary Chesnut's Civil War (book) | Chesnut Cottage | Columbia, SC | Turkey | |
| 1865/02/00 | On the train from Charlotte a soldier offers MBC hard tack biscuits and, with an ingratiating smile explains, "Please take these two, swap with me, give me something softer that I can eat, I am very weak still". | Life | Mary Chesnut's Civil War (book) | Hardtack | |||
| 1865/02/25 | The Pfeifers, who live opposite us here, are descendants of those Pfeifers who came South with Mr Chesnut's ancestors after the Fort Duquesne disaster. They have now, therefore, been driven out of their Eden, the valley of Virginia, a second time. - MBC | Visitor | Mary Chesnut's Civil War (book) | Lincolnton, NC | North Carolina | ||
| 1865/03/21 | My husband was at the Chester station with a carriage. We drove at once to Mrs Da Vega's. | Guest | Mary Chesnut's Civil War (book) | Chester, SC | South Carolina | ||
| 1865/04/22 | Col Cadwallader Jones came with a despatch, a sealed secret despatch. It was for General Chesnut. I opened it. Lincoln, old Abe Lincoln, has been killed, murdered, and Seward wounded! Why? By whom? It is simply maddening, all this. | Life | Mary Chesnut's Civil War (book) | Assassination of Abraham Lincoln | |||
| 1886/11/22 | Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut dies at home in Camden. She is buried at the Knights Hill Cemetery in Camden, Kershaw County, South Carolina. | Died | Mulberry Plantation (Chesnut House) | Camden, SC | |||
| 1905/03/00 | A DIARY FROM DIXIE, as written by MARY BOYKIN CHESNUT, wife of James Chesnut Jr, US Senator from South Carolina, Edited by Isabella D Martin and Myrta Lockett Avary, is published by NEW YORK D APPLETON AND COMPANY 1906 | Author | Mary Chesnut's Civil War (book) | ||||
| 1981/00/00 | "Mary Chesnut's Civil War" by Mary Boykin Chesnut is published by Yale University Press. | Author | Mary Chesnut's Civil War (book) | ||||
| 1982/04/00 | Mary Boykin Chesnut is awarded a Pulitzer Prize for "Mary Chesnut's Civil War". | Author | Mary Chesnut's Civil War (book) |
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