A Diary from Dixie: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Diary from Dixie, credited to Mary Chesnut, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of A Diary from Dixie, by Mary Chesnut Read by Laurie Anne Walden Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, a well-educated South Carolina woman who was married to a Confederate general, kept extensive journals during the Civil War. Mrs. Chesnut moved in elite circles of Southern society and had a keen interest in politics. Her diary is both an important historical document and, because of her sharp wit and often irreverent attitude, a fascinating window into Southern society of the time. This recording is of the first published edition of the diary, edited by Isabella D. Martin and Myrta Lockett Avary and compiled from Mrs. Chesnut's revisions of her original journals. (Summary by Laurie Anne Walden)

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Diary from Dixie
• Author credits: Mary Chesnut
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 41
• Listed recording duration: 14:32:29

Catalogue topics

• Confederacy
• memoirs
• history
• Civil War
• South Carolina

Opening tracks: first 24 of 41

1. 00 - Introduction by I. Martin and M. Avary — 19:32
2. 01 - Ch. I. Charleston, SC — 10:19
3. 02 - Ch. II. Montgomery, AL — 32:14
4. 03 - Ch. III. Charleston, SC — 45:08
5. 04 - Ch. IV. Camden, SC — 10:12
6. 05 - Ch. V. Montgomery, AL — 19:51
7. 06 - Ch. VI. Charleston, SC — 22:51
8. 07 - Ch. VII. Richmond, VA — 18:48
9. 08 - Ch. VIII. Fauquier White Sulphur Springs, VA — 8:43
10. 09 - Ch. IX. Richmond, VA, Part 1 — 31:07
11. 10 - Ch. IX. Richmond, VA, Part 2 — 33:04
12. 11 - Ch. IX. Richmond, VA, Part 3 — 31:16
13. 12 - Ch. X. Camden, SC — 7:50
14. 13 - Ch. XI. Columbia, SC, Part 1 — 20:22
15. 14 - Ch. XI. Columbia, SC, Part 2 — 22:47
16. 15 - Ch. XI. Columbia, SC, Part 3 — 20:16
17. 16 - Ch. XI. Columbia, SC, Part 4 — 20:09
18. 17 - Ch. XI. Columbia, SC, Part 5 — 17:18
19. 18 - Ch. XI. Columbia, SC, Part 6 — 19:32
20. 19 - Ch. XI. Columbia, SC, Part 7 — 19:18
21. 20 - Ch. XI. Columbia, SC, Part 8 — 14:16
22. 21 - Ch. XI. Columbia, SC, Part 9 — 14:03
23. 22 - Ch. XII. Flat Rock, NC — 11:37
24. 23 - Ch. XIII. Portland, AL — 26:40

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