CHESNUT, Mary Boykin. WILLIAMS, Ben Ames (ed.). A Diary from Dixie. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980. 8vo. xxviii, 572 pp., frontis. Orig. cloth. Very good. In Tall Cotton 23. Harwell writes, "This is one of the great diaries-from any time and any place. Mrs. Chesnut recopied (perhaps rewrote) her.....