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1 online resource |
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A tragic fall -- My name is a heritage of woe -- Escape, capture, and Fort Monroe -- A fatal romance -- Scandal and sickness -- Boarding school blues and the Dorsey dilemma -- Yellow fever -- Portrait of a lady -- Daughter of the Confederacy -- Life in a fishbowl -- I will never consent! -- Engagement issues -- Italian idyll -- Dear diary -- A world on fire -- Queen of a mystic court -- New York, new woman -- The last casualty of the lost cause -- Death and maiden -- Epilogue: the great-great-grandson of the Confederacy and the daughter of New York |
| Summary |
Varina Anne ôWinnieö Davis was born into a war-torn South in June of 1864, the youngest daughter of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his second wife, Varina Howell Davis. Born only a month after the death of beloved Confederate hero General J.E.B. Stuart during a string of Confederate victories, WinnieÆs birth was hailed as a blessing by war-weary Southerners. They felt her arrival was a good omen signifying future victory. But after the ConfederacyÆs ultimate defeat in the Civil War, Winnie would spend her early life as a genteel refugee and a European expatriate abroad. After return |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Davis, Varina Anne, 1864-1898.
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Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 -- Family
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Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 -- Family
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Davis, Varina Anne, 1864-1898
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Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 fast |
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Davis, Varina Anne, 1864-1898 fast |
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Children of presidents -- Confederate States of America -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
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Children of presidents
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Families
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Confederate States of America -- Biography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85030833
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United States -- Confederate States of America
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781612346380 |
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1612346383 |
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