Chesnut, Mary Boykin. The Private Mary Chesnut: The Unpublished Diaries. Edited by C. Vann Woodward and Elisabeth Muhlenfeld. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.

Need for determination and brains to support Confederacy, 3 Palmetto flag, , 4 Fernandina, morphine, 4 Fears secession, Rhetts, 4-5 James Chesnut resigned senate seat, 5 Christmas, 5-6 Charleston, , Governor Pickens, elections, old fogies, 6 Toombs, , 8 John C. Breckinridge, 9 Thomas Jefferson Withers, Toombs, Cobb, Davis, corruption, 10 Office seekers, 10-11 William Montague Browne, 11 inauguration, Montgomery, 12 Reading, 12-13 Barnwell, James Chesnut, Davis, Rhett, 13-14 Winfield Scott, 14 Robert Barnwell, 14 Discussion about South Carolinians, 15 Abraham and Mary Lincoln, 15, 30 Rhett, Mallory, James Chesnut, 16-17 Old political hostilities and opposition to Davis, 17 Benjamin Hill, 17-18 Drilling of Montgomery Blues, 19 Eugenia Phillips, 20 Jefferson and Varina Davis, church, 20 Slavery, slave sales, 21 Confederate flag, 22 Mallory, 22-23 Varina Davis, 23 Mallory and Eugenia Phillips, 24 Prospects of war, 25 Hotel women, 25 Washington and corruption, 26 Reconstuctionists, 28 Mallory, 29, 31 Divorce law, 31 Seward, 31 Mary Lincoln, 31-32 Lincoln inauguration ball, 32 Jacob Thompson, Buchanan, 37 Mallory, 38 Mad woman on cars, drunken minister, 41 Slavery, 42

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Slave trial, 43 Childless women, 44-45 John Manning, secession, South Carolina, 47 War and patronage, 49 Flirting, 49-50 Mrs. Wigfall, Varina Davis Jefferson Davis not for secession, 52 Charleston, Fort Sumter, 58ff , Beauregard, 60 Chesnut, Davis, Wade Hampton, cautious men, 63 Mallory, 63, 68 Louis Wigfall, 64 Rhett, 67 Varina Davis, 69 Robert M. T. Hunter, 69 List of silver to be left in bank, 73 Wishes she were a man, frustrated with talk and passivity, 74 "They say the poor white people say why should they fight for the • rich people's property." 74 Stephen A. Douglas death, 77 Benjamin Huger, 78 Robert E. Lee, 81 Magruder, Big Bethel, religion, 82 Union defense committee, New York, 83 Rhett complaint, 83 Slave with a gun, 84 Keitt thinks Jefferson Davis a failure, James Chesnut, 85 Jefferson and Varina Davis, 85 Davis and Beauregard, 85-86 Louis Wigfall, 85-86 Varina Davis and Montgomery Blair’s wife, 86 Varina Davis, 88-91 Joseph and Lydia Johnston, 91 Rumors, 92 No end to war, men retreating, 93 Hetty Cary, 93 Wigfall, 94 Laudanum, 96 Varina Davis, 96 Jefferson Davis and Beauregard, 97 Manassas, Bull Run, Jefferson Davis, 98-100 Varina Davis, Mrs. Wigfall, 98 Leroy Pope Walker, 99 Manassas, 101 Jefferson Davis, Johnston, Beauregard, John Preston, James Chesnut, 102 Yankee letters, women, 103 Varina Davis reception, Jefferson Davis, Beauregard, Manassas, 103

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Jefferson Davis and family packing last week, 104 Yankee prisoner proposed taking oath and going into trade, 106 Toombs, 107 Criticism of Jefferson and Varina Davis, Keitt, Boyce, Hammond, 109 Richmond fair grounds, 111 Toombs, 111 Opposition to Davis, 119 Toombs, Cobb, Hammond, Keitt, Boyce opposed to Davis and Stephens, 121 Hammond, opposition to Chesnut as senator, Rhett, 121-22 Jews, 122 Burning of Hampton, Virginia, 122 Strong feeling against Davis, 122-23 Newspaper stories about bad treatment of Union prisoners, 130 Beauregard, 130 Toombs, 131 Hospitals, 135 Democracies and elections, 137 Abner Doubleday, 139 Varina Davis, Mrs. Toombs, Mrs. Reagan, Mrs. Walker, 140 Northern consolidation, 143 William Howard Russell, 145 et passim Condition of women, 145 Senate, James Chesnu, 146 Individual effort and zeal in the war, 149 Coast defense, 150 Mallory, Varina Davis, 152 Eugenia Phillips, Daniel Sickles, 152 Jefferson Davis, 153 Alexander Stephens, 158, 162 Woman smothered by slaves, 159, 162-64, 173-75, 190 Rhett, 163 Army and Jefferson Davis, 166 Davis, Rhett, Mercury, 169-70 defenses, 172 Political sermon, 176 Black minister, 177 Slaves, 179 If she had been a man in the current revolution, 179-80 Mercury attacks on government, 183, 186-87 Beauregard, Davis, Manassas, 192 Rumors about cabinet resignations, 193 Port Royal, 194, 200 Jefferson and Varina Davis, house in Montgomery, 198 Slaves, 200 Jefferson Davis, soldier cheering for Beauregard, 203 Church, resolve not to be bitter, 209

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Desire for death, 210-11 James Chesnut defeated for senate, 212 Slavery is over, 214 Nearly white slave, 215 Jefferson Davis and cabinet, Hampton Roads conference, 220 , Franklin, Nashville, Buck Preston, 222-24 Wade Hampton, Longstreet, Chickamauga, Johnston, Wigfall, 225 Edmund Rhett, Jefferson Davis, 226 Senator Orr, Black soldiers, Hood, Wigfall, 226-27 Lincolnton, North Carolina, 227 Religious discussion, 231-32 Rumors about Columbia, 232

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