Mary Chesnut’s Civil War

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annotated edition book historical document

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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Label	Occurrences
Mary Boykin Chesnut’s Civil War diary	1
Mary Boykin Chesnut’s original Civil War diary	1
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.

NED1 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]

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.
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
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 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.

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.
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 ⓘ book ⓘ historical document ⓘ
associatedWith	Civil War historiography ⓘ Southern United States history ⓘ
basedOn	Mary Boykin Chesnut’s Civil War diary ⓘ linked to: Mary Chesnut’s Civil War
countryOfPublication	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
editorAffiliation	C. Vann Woodward as historian of the American South ⓘ
editorContribution	annotation ⓘ historical contextualization ⓘ selection and organization of diary material ⓘ
editorRoleOf	C. Vann Woodward ⓘ
genre	diary ⓘ history ⓘ memoir ⓘ primary source ⓘ
hasAuthor	Mary Boykin Chesnut ⓘ
hasEditor	C. Vann Woodward ⓘ
hasFeature	contextual essays ⓘ extensive footnotes ⓘ historical commentary ⓘ scholarly introduction ⓘ
hasForm	annotated text ⓘ
hasReputation	classic of Civil War literature ⓘ critically acclaimed ⓘ major primary source on the Confederate home front ⓘ
historicalSignificance	important source on gender and class in the Civil War South ⓘ key source for understanding Confederate civilian experience ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
literaryForm	edited diary ⓘ nonfiction ⓘ
narrativePerspective	first-person ⓘ
portrays	Confederate military events ⓘ Confederate political leadership ⓘ elite Southern women ⓘ enslaved people’s conditions ⓘ plantation life ⓘ
relatedWork	Mary Boykin Chesnut’s original Civil War diary ⓘ linked to: Mary Chesnut’s Civil War
setting	Confederate capital Richmond, Virginia ⓘ linked to: Richmond, Virginia South Carolina ⓘ
subject	American Civil War ⓘ Confederate States of America ⓘ Southern society ⓘ slavery in the United States ⓘ women in war ⓘ
timePeriodCovered	1861–1865 ⓘ

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Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

C. Vann Woodward → notableWork → Mary Chesnut’s Civil War ⓘ

Mary Chesnut’s Civil War → basedOn → Mary Boykin Chesnut’s Civil War diary ⓘ

linked to: Mary Chesnut’s Civil War

Mary Chesnut’s Civil War → relatedWork → Mary Boykin Chesnut’s original Civil War diary ⓘ