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Mary Chesnut’s Civil War

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Chesnut

In Mary Boykin Chesnut: Diary
…edition with a biographical essay, Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, edited by C. Vann Woodward (1981), was awarded the 1982 Pulitzer Prize in U.S. history.
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discussed in biography

In C. Vann Woodward
…during World War II, and Mary Chesnut’s Civil War (1981), a collection of original Civil War-era letters he edited and which earned him the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for history. His autobiography, Thinking Back: The Perils of Writing History, was published in 1986.
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