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My father was a South Carolina nullifier, governor of the state at the time of the nullification row, and then U.S. senator. So I was of necessity a rebel born.

— Mary Boykin Chesnut

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And all the time they seem to think themselves patterns — models of husbands and fathers.

Woe to those who began this war, if they were not in bitter earnest.

Every day regiments pass by. The town is crowded with soldiers. These new ones are running in, fairly. They fear the war will be over before they get a sight of the fun.

What nonsense I write here. However, this journal is intended to be entirely objective. My subjective days are over. No more silent eating into my own heart, making my own misery, when without these morbid fantasies I could be so happy.

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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