MARY CHESNUT’S DIARY

Mary Chesnut’s Diary

written response 250-350 words

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Mary Chesnut’s diary

Crisis at Fort Sumter with background

http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/primarysources/april-12th-diary-entry-of.html (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Guidelines:
Use only this primary source
Do not use your text or outside sources or Internet sources
Do not write a paper on accomplishments of women or all women and the war.

You are to analyze this document as an illustration on how the war impacted women.

1) What is the historical context or setting of the document? Include the specific date or time period of the source

2) How did the coming of the war impact the women discussed in the document?
How did it change their lives?
3) Did you notice a different role played by women compared to the men in the document?

4) How did reading this primary source aid your understanding of how the start of the war impacted women?

5) Do you think reading a source written by women offers a different perspective on events?

Use specific details from the document to answer the questions

Source : Mary Chesnut’s diary (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

The link (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. gives background on Mary Chesnut and the excerpt from her diary.

Answer preview
The historical setting of the book, Mary Chesnut’s diary is during the time of civil war which dated from February 1861 up to June 1865. It’s written when Chesnut was serving the Confederacy a Jefferson Davis aide and as a brigadier general (www.battlefields.org)…
(280 words)
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