![]() Wigfall, Wade Hampton III, and Jefferson Davis. His wife was Mary Boykin Chesnut, whose published diaries reflect the Chesnuts' busy social life and prominent friends such as John Bell Hood, Louis T. Chesnut returned to law practice after the war. Later he was aide to Jefferson Davis and promoted to Brigadier-General. Beauregard, he ordered the firing on Fort Sumter and served at First Manassas. He also served as a senior officer of the Confederate States Army in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War.Īs aide to General P.G.T. He was Deputy from South Carolina to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1862. Senate and took part in the South Carolina secession convention, later helping to draft the Confederate States Constitution. But on Lincoln's election in 1860, Chesnut resigned from the U.S. (Janu– February 1, 1885) was an American lawyer and politician, and a Confederate functionary.Ĭhesnut, a lawyer prominent in South Carolina state politics, served as a Democratic senator in 1858–60, where he proved moderate on the slavery question. ![]() Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives Member of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States ![]()
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