First Lady of the Confederacy : : Varina Davis’s Civil War / / Joan E. Cashin.

When Jefferson Davis became president of the Confederacy, his wife, Varina Howell Davis, reluctantly became the First Lady. Pro-slavery but also pro-Union, Varina Davis was inhibited by her role as Confederate First Lady and unable to reveal her true convictions.Cashin offers a splendid portrait of...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]
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Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Illustrations --   |t Introduction --   |t 1. Half Breed --   |t 2. This Mr. Davis --   |t 3. Flattered and Courted --   |t 4. First Lady --   |t 5. No Matter What Danger There Was --   |t 6. Holocausts of Herself --   |t 7. Run with the Rest --   |t 8. Threadbare Great Folks --   |t 9. Topic of the Day --   |t 10. Crowd of Sorrows --   |t 11. Fascinating Failures --   |t 12. The Girdled Tree --   |t 13. Delectable City --   |t 14. Like Martha --   |t 15. At Peace --   |t Notes --   |t A note on sources --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Index 
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