“Oh, that I was a man!”

The South Carolina Historical Society published its Spring 2009 Carologue.  Shannon Hungerford’s summary of Mary Boykin Chesnut’s diaries is featured on pages 20-23. Hungerford, a candidate for a History Master’s candidate with The Graduate School of the College of Charleston, writes that Chesnut was not your typical Southern Belle.  As a childless wife whose in-laws…

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