FORT SUMTER, S.C. , April 12 , 1861 — 3 . 20 a.m. SIR : By authority of Brigadier-General Beauregard, commanding the Provisional Forc...

Fort SUMTER, S.C., April 12 , 1861 . GENERAL: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt by Colonel Chesnut of your second communic...

Andy, made lord of all by the madman, Booth, says, “Destruction only to the wealthy classes.” Better teach the negroes to stand alone befor...

They say Governor Magrath has absconded, and that the Yankees have said, “If you have no visible governor, we will send you one.” If we had...

A feeling of sadness hovers over me now, day and night, which no words of mine can express. There is a chance for plenty of character study...

This yellow Confederate quire of paper, my journal, blotted by entries, has been buried three days with the silver sugar-dish, teapot, milk...

Just now, when Mr. Clay dashed up-stairs, pale as a sheet, saying, “General Lee has capitulated,” I saw it reflected in Mary Darby's fa...

A letter from Mrs. Davis, who writes: “Do come to me, and see how we get on. I shall have a spare room by the time you arrive, indifferentl...

I find I have not spoken of the box-car which held the Preston party that day on their way to York from Richmond. In the party were Mr. and...

I have moved again, and now I am looking from a window high, with something more to see than the sky. We have the third story of Dr. Da Veg...

CHESTER, S. C. – Another flitting has occurred. Captain Ogden came for me; the splendid Childs was true as steel to the last. Surely he is ...

Lawrence says Miss Chesnut is very proud of the presence of mind and cool self-possession she showed in the face of the enemy. She lost, af...

[Chester Court House, March 15th, 1865] In the morning I send Lieut. Ogden with Lawrence to Lincolnton to bring you down. I have three ...

My husband at last did come for a visit of two hours. Brought Lawrence, who had been to Camden, and was there, indeed, during the raid. My ...

Better to-day. A long, long weary day in grief has passed away. I suppose General Chesnut is somewhere—but where? that is the question. Onl...

Colonel Childs came with a letter from my husband and a newspaper containing a full account of Sherman 's cold-blooded brutality in Col...

Is the sea drying up? Is it going up into mist and coming down on us in a water-spout? The rain, it raineth every day. The weather typifie...

Mrs. Munroe offered me religious books, which I declined, being already provided with the Lamentations of Jeremiah, the Psalms of David, th...

Camp Near Charlotte, February 28. I thank you a thousand, thousand times for your kind letters. They are now my only earthly comfort, e...

The Pfeifers, who live opposite us here, are descendants of those Pfeifers who came South with Mr. Chesnut's ancestors after the Fort D...