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Mary Chestnut expresses hopes for first war summer

July 9, 20111860s, American Civil Waradmin


"The Civil War - Episode One: The Cause (1861)"

(Tuesday, July 9, 1861) — Civil War diarist Mary Chestnut expresses hope for “our battle summer. May it be our first and our last, so called. After all we have not had any of the horrors of war.”

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