Mary Chesnut’s Civil War
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Mary Chesnut’s Civil War is a critically acclaimed annotated edition of Mary Boykin Chesnut’s Civil War diary, edited and contextualized by historian C. Vann Woodward.
All labels observed (1)
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| Mary Chesnut’s Civil War canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5303017 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary Chesnut’s Civil War Context triple: [C. Vann Woodward, notableWork, Mary Chesnut’s Civil War]
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A.
The True Story of the Civil War
The True Story of the Civil War is a short documentary film that presents an overview of the American Civil War using period photographs, documents, and narration to depict the conflict’s major events and significance.
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B.
The Lees of Old Virginia
"The Lees of Old Virginia" is a lively, character-establishing song from the Broadway musical *1776* that humorously introduces Richard Henry Lee and his proud Virginia lineage.
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C.
Memoirs of General William T. Sherman
Memoirs of General William T. Sherman is the autobiographical account of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman’s life and military career, particularly his campaigns during the American Civil War.
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D.
The Blue and the Gray
The Blue and the Gray is a 1982 American television miniseries that dramatizes the American Civil War through the intertwined lives of two families on opposing sides of the conflict.
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E.
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government is a two-volume historical and autobiographical account in which former Confederate president Jefferson Davis defends and explains the origins, conduct, and collapse of the Confederate States during the American Civil War.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary Chesnut’s Civil War Target entity description: Mary Chesnut’s Civil War is a critically acclaimed annotated edition of Mary Boykin Chesnut’s Civil War diary, edited and contextualized by historian C. Vann Woodward.
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A.
The True Story of the Civil War
The True Story of the Civil War is a short documentary film that presents an overview of the American Civil War using period photographs, documents, and narration to depict the conflict’s major events and significance.
-
B.
The Lees of Old Virginia
"The Lees of Old Virginia" is a lively, character-establishing song from the Broadway musical *1776* that humorously introduces Richard Henry Lee and his proud Virginia lineage.
-
C.
Memoirs of General William T. Sherman
Memoirs of General William T. Sherman is the autobiographical account of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman’s life and military career, particularly his campaigns during the American Civil War.
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D.
The Blue and the Gray
The Blue and the Gray is a 1982 American television miniseries that dramatizes the American Civil War through the intertwined lives of two families on opposing sides of the conflict.
-
E.
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government is a two-volume historical and autobiographical account in which former Confederate president Jefferson Davis defends and explains the origins, conduct, and collapse of the Confederate States during the American Civil War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
annotated edition
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book ⓘ historical document ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Civil War historiography
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Southern United States history ⓘ |
| basedOn | Mary Boykin Chesnut’s Civil War diary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfPublication |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| editorAffiliation | C. Vann Woodward as historian of the American South ⓘ |
| editorContribution |
annotation
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historical contextualization ⓘ selection and organization of diary material ⓘ |
| editorRoleOf | C. Vann Woodward NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
diary
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history ⓘ memoir ⓘ primary source ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | Mary Boykin Chesnut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEditor | C. Vann Woodward NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
contextual essays
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extensive footnotes ⓘ historical commentary ⓘ scholarly introduction ⓘ |
| hasForm | annotated text ⓘ |
| hasReputation |
classic of Civil War literature
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critically acclaimed ⓘ major primary source on the Confederate home front ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
important source on gender and class in the Civil War South
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key source for understanding Confederate civilian experience ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm |
edited diary
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nonfiction ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| portrays |
Confederate military events
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Confederate political leadership ⓘ elite Southern women ⓘ enslaved people’s conditions ⓘ plantation life ⓘ |
| relatedWork | Mary Boykin Chesnut’s original Civil War diary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
Confederate capital Richmond, Virginia
NERFINISHED
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South Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subject |
American Civil War
NERFINISHED
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Confederate States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ Southern society ⓘ slavery in the United States ⓘ women in war ⓘ |
| timePeriodCovered | 1861–1865 ⓘ |
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