Mary Boykin Chesnut

Mary Chesnut was born.

Mar 31, 1823

Mary Boykin Chesnut was born in Camden, South Carolina.

Mery Chesnuts father died

May 28, 1831

her father died

Mary began her formal education in Charleston, where she boarded at MME.

Apr 5, 1835

Started her formal education

Mary's family moved.

May 19, 1835

They had lived at Mount Pleasant until 1835.

Mary Chesnut got married to James Chesnut

Jul 28, 1840

Mary had had a courtship with James Chesnut since she was thirteen.

She accopanied her husband to Washington when he was elected Senate.

Sep 13, 1858

Her husband was elected Senate, so she went with him to Washington.

James Chesnut(her husband) was the US senate until Lincoln was president.

Oct 11, 1860

HE resigned when Lincoln became president.

Mary began writing her diary

Feb 18, 1861

She kept a diary while the Civil War was happening and it was later published in 1905 after her death.

Lincoln's Inaugeration

Mar 4, 1861

Attack on Fort Sumter

Apr 28, 1861

Antietam- Bloodiest Day in the US

Sep 17, 1862

Battle of Antietam, mostly in the south,

Gettysburg- "Lee is Defeated"

Apr 25, 1863

Vicksburg Falls

May 18, 1863

Final major military action.

Battle of Chickamagua

Sep 19, 1863

rebels win

Atlanta is Burned

Jun 25, 1864

Appamatox Court House

Apr 19, 1865

lee surrenders

she got a sockness in her lungs and heart and it interrupted her work.

Nov 28, 1870

she later died because of the illness and she had a heart attack.

Mary started to look over and evaluate her diary, soon to be published.

Apr 25, 1873

She kept up with a diary during the Civil War and it was published after she died.

Mary Chesnut died.

Nov 22, 1886

She died of a heart attack in Camden, South Carolina.

Buried in Camden, SC

Nov 22, 1886

She died in 1886 on November 22nd and is buried in Camden, South Carolina next to her husband.