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    A DIARY FROM
    DIXIE [Illustration]




[Illustration: MRS. JAMES CHESNUT, JR.

From a Portrait in Oil.]




                              A DIARY FROM
                         DIXIE, _as written by_

                  MARY BOYKIN CHESNUT, _wife of_ JAMES
             CHESNUT, JR., _United States Senator from South
               Carolina, 1859-1861, and afterward an Aide
               to Jefferson Davis and a Brigadier-General
                        in the Confederate Army_

                                Edited by
                         Isabella D. Martin and
                              Myrta Lockett
                                  Avary

                             [Illustration]

                                NEW YORK
                         D. APPLETON AND COMP