<DIV><B>An unrivalled account of the American Civil War from the Confederate perspective. </B><br><BR> One of the most compelling personal narratives of the Civil War, <I>Mary Chesnut's Diary</I> was written between 1861 and 1865. As the daughter of a wealthy plantation owner and the wife of an aide to the Confederate President, Jefferson Davis, Chesnut was well acquainted with the Confederacy's prominent players and-from the very first shots in Charleston, South Carolina-diligently recorded her impressions of the conflict's most significant moments. One of the most frequently cited memoirs of the war, <I>Mary Chesnut's Diary</I> captures the urgency and nuance of the period in an epic rich with commentary on race, status, and power within a nation divided.<BR><BR></DIV>