A Diary From Dixie by Mary Chestnut
Date and Time: October 18, 2018, 2:00 PM CT
Location:
Aldersgate Village, 7220 SW Asbury Dr, Topeka
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From the TALK series, The Civil War
Discussion Leader: Sandra Wiechert
Mary Chesnut (1823-1886) was a woman of the Southern plantation elite, well connected, and passionately committed to the Confederacy's losing cause. Through the course of the war, she worked in hospitals and witnessed the social costs of the Civil War, the slow destruction of her way of life. 426 pp.
Sponsored by: Aldersgate Village
For more information about this event, please contact:
Janet McClanahan
(785) 478-9440