I haven't read that one yet but another that's more in keeping with those not in the upper ranks is Oh, What a Loansome Time I Had: The Civil war Letters of Major William Morel Moxley, Eighteenth Alabama Infantry, and Emily Beck Moxley - by Emily Moxley, William Morel Moxley.
Mary Chestnut gave us a lot of the background on the beginning of the movement to seceed and then went into the life as a more affluent part of that society. Not a picnic but not as bad as a whole lot of others.

Pam