Her most famous work was edited by (*) C. Vann Woodward after being prominently featured in Edmund Wilson's Patriotic Gore.
This writer famously joked that "We try our soldiers to see if they are hot enough before we enlist them. If, when water is thrown on them they do not sizz, they won't do." Kenneth S. Lynn accused this author of "fabrication," due to the extensive 1881 to 1884 revisions of this author's most famous work. This resident of Mulberry Plantation claimed that Harriet Beecher Stowe missed the "sorest spot" of slavery by making Legree a bachelor, since she could have had him "a magnate who runs a hideous black harem...under the same roof with his lovely white wife and his beautiful and accomplished daughters." Her most famous work was edited by (*) C. Vann Woodward after being prominently featured in Edmund Wilson's Patriotic Gore. This author noted  the disruption of regular meals by the guns bombarding Fort Sumter. For 10 points, what wife of a South Carolina congressman kept a notable diary of the Civil War?
This writer famously joked that "We try our soldiers to see if they are hot enough before we enlist them.
Mary (Boykin) Chesnut