- Mary Boykin Chestnut journal entry
Charleston, SC - 2 April 1861
Doctor Gibbes says the Convention is in a snarl. It was called as a Secession Convention.
- Mary Boykin Chestnut journal entry
Charleston, SC - 6 April 1861
Beauregard is a demigod here to most of the natives, but there are always seers who see and say. They give you to understand that Whiting has all the brains now in use for our defense.
- Mary Boykin Chestnut journal entry
Charleston, SC - 8 April 1861
Went to see Miss Pinckney, one of the last of the old-world Pinckneys. She inquired particularly about a portrait of her father, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
- Mary Boykin Chestnut journal entry
Charleston, SC - 12 April 1861
Anderson will not capitulate. Yesterday's was the merriest, maddest dinner we have had yet. Men were audaciously wise and witty.
- Mary Boykin Chestnut journal entry
Charleston, SC - 15 April 1861
I did not know that one could live such days of excitement. Some one called : "Come out ! There is a crowd coming."
- Mary Boykin Chestnut journal entry
Montgomery, AL - 9 May 1861
Sumter ,Anderson has been offered a Kentucky regiment. Can they raise a regiment in Kentucky against us ? In Kentucky, our sister State?
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- Mary Boykin Chestnut journal entry
Charleston, SC - 12 June 1861
The war is making us all tenderly sentimental. No casualties yet, no real mourning, nobody hurt. So it is all parade, fife, and fine feathers. Posing we are en grande tenue.
- Mary Boykin Chestnut journal entry
Charleston, SC - 19 June 1861
n England Mr. Gregory and Mr. Lyndsey rise to say a good word for us. Heaven reward them
- Mary Boykin Chestnut journal entry
Fauquier White Sulphur Springs, VA - 7 July 1861
An antique female, with every hair curled and frizzed, said to be a Yankee spy, sits opposite us.
- Mary Boykin Chestnut journal entry
Fauquier White Sulphur Springs, VA - 11 July 1861
The one who is under a cloud,, shadowed as a Yankee spy, has confirmed our worst suspicions. She exhibited unholy joy, as she reported seven hundred sick soldiers in the hospital at Culpeper
- Mary Boykin Chestnut journal entry
Richmond, VA - 13 July 1861
Mr. Chesnut doubtless had too many spies to receive from Washington, galloping in with the exact numbers of the enemy done up in their back hair.
- Mary Boykin Chestnut journal entry
Richmond, VA - 16 July 1861
As far as I can make out, Beauregard sent Mr. Chesnut to the President to gain permission for the forces of Joe Johnston and Beauregard to join, and, united, to push the enemy, if possible, over the Potomac.
- Mary Boykin Chestnut journal entry
Richmond, VA - 19 July 1861
Beauregard telegraphed yesterday (they say, to General Johnston), " Come down and help us, or we shall be crushed by numbers.
- Mary Boykin Chestnut journal entry
Richmond, VA - 23 July 1861
Mrs. Davis came in so softly that I did not know she was here until she leaned over me and said : A great battle has been fought. Joe Johnston led the right wing, and Beauregard the left wing