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Mary Chesnut was born.
Mary Boykin Chesnut was born in Camden, South Carolina. -
Mery Chesnuts father died
her father died -
Mary began her formal education in Charleston, where she boarded at MME.
Started her formal education -
Mary's family moved.
They had lived at Mount Pleasant until 1835. -
Mary Chesnut got married to James Chesnut
Mary had had a courtship with James Chesnut since she was thirteen. -
She accopanied her husband to Washington when he was elected Senate.
Her husband was elected Senate, so she went with him to Washington. -
James Chesnut(her husband) was the US senate until Lincoln was president.
HE resigned when Lincoln became president. -
Mary began writing her diary
She kept a diary while the Civil War was happening and it was later published in 1905 after her death. -
Lincoln's Inaugeration
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Attack on Fort Sumter
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Antietam- Bloodiest Day in the US
Battle of Antietam, mostly in the south, -
Gettysburg- "Lee is Defeated"
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Vicksburg Falls
Final major military action. -
Battle of Chickamagua
rebels win -
Atlanta is Burned
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Appamatox Court House
lee surrenders -
she got a sockness in her lungs and heart and it interrupted her work.
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.
She kept up with a diary during the Civil War and it was published after she died. -
Mary Chesnut died.
She died of a heart attack in Camden, South Carolina. -
Buried in Camden, SC
She died in 1886 on November 22nd and is buried in Camden, South Carolina next to her husband.
