Status Updates From Mary Chesnut's Civil War

Had to take Mary back to the library :/

"We ought to be grateful that any one of us is alive. But nobody is afraid of their own negroes. These are brutes—savages, monsters—but I find everyone like myself, ready to trust their own yard. I would go down to the plantation tomorrow and stay there, if there was no white person in twenty miles." Absolutely astonishing the lengths these people'll go to reason "Surely the people I enslave won't murder ME."

"Patriarch Moses has cross-eyes. He looks both ways, seeing things from two points of view at once—makes him liberal-minded." The Explainer General thinks herself so funny...!

"Mr. Barnwell says democracies lead to untruthfulness. To always be electioneering is to be always false...He went on. "People dare not tell the truth in canvass. They must conciliate their constituents."" Well, he's not wrong.

"He coolly helped himself and ate my soldiers' peaches—as if peaches grew on trees here..." They must have a different kind of peach in South Carolina!