Mary Chesnut’s Civil War

…edition with a biographical essay, Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, edited by C. Vann Woodward (1981), was awarded the 1982 Pulitzer Prize in U.S. history.

…during World War II, and Mary Chesnut’s Civil War (1981), a collection of original Civil War-era letters he edited and which earned him the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for history. His autobiography, Thinking Back: The Perils of Writing History, was published in 1986.