A Diary from Dixie

A Diary from Dixie is a book by an American writer, who was born in a famous slave-owning state, South Caroline, Mary Boykin Chesnut. Basically, this book is a specific chronicle of the Civil War that was described from within her circle of society. Secretly from her husband, Mary Chestnut was against slavery and sympathized the North American abolitionists. In 1982 the annotated edition of the Diary won the Pulitzer Prize for History.