mary chestnut (1962-1966), Louise Lee (1963-1967), Charles Schaller (1946-1950), Michael Haynes (1960-1964), william law (1960-1964), Gregory Parmley (1977-1981)
"Just to let them know whats going on, what issues are involved, why did these authors like Mary Chestnut, Frederick Douglas, Abe Lincoln, Steven Crane, Walt Whitman, what was going on in their lives that would make them write the things that they write," Simmons said.
umter are a microcosm of what the reader can expect in this anthology. We look over the shoulder of Mary Chestnut, who, from inside her Charleston hotel room, confides her Southern response to this momentous event in the pages of her diary. We hear Abner Doubleday, an officer in the Union garrison i