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Showing posts with label Alexander Hamilton Boykin. Show all posts
Sunday, January 31, 2016

Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut: May 4, 1865

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Home again at Bloomsbury. From Chester to Winnsboro we did not see one living thing, man, woman, or animal, except poor William trudging h...
Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut: July 26, 1864

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Isabella went with me to the bulletin-board. Mrs. D. (with the white linen as usual pasted on her chin) asked me to read aloud what was the...
Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut: May 29, 1862

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Betsey, recalcitrant maid of the W.'s, has been sold to a telegraph man. She is as handsome as a mulatto ever gets to be, and clever in...
Friday, January 9, 2015

Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut: June 12, 1861

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Have been looking at Mrs. O'Dowd as she burnished the “Meejor's arms” before Waterloo. And I have been busy, too. My husband has go...
Thursday, December 25, 2014

Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut: April 12, 1861

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Anderson will not capitulate. Yesterday's was the merriest, maddest dinner we have had yet. Men were audaciously wise and witty. ...
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