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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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009] ©2008 |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (416 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Introduction
- 1. Half Breed
- 2. This Mr. Davis
- 3. Flattered and Courted
- 4. First Lady
- 5. No Matter What Danger There Was
- 6. Holocausts of Herself
- 7. Run with the Rest
- 8. Threadbare Great Folks
- 9. Topic of the Day
- 10. Crowd of Sorrows
- 11. Fascinating Failures
- 12. The Girdled Tree
- 13. Delectable City
- 14. Like Martha
- 15. At Peace
- Notes
- A note on sources
- Acknowledgments
- Index