South Carolina's Secession Crisis

Mary Chesnut, Civil War diarist extraordinaire,

and her husband, James Chesnut, Jr., U.S. Senator, 1858-60

Other posts in the series:

1: Secession Sesquicentennial: Prologue

2: The Winter of Sumner's Discontent

3: Putting the "SC" in Secession

4: Buying Time During Secession Winter

5: The Forts

6: The Adams Family

7: Secessionists Take Fort Sumter