First Lady Of The Confederacy
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First Lady Of The Confederacy
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Author : Joan E. Cashin
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-07-01
First Lady Of The Confederacy written by Joan E. Cashin and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
When Jefferson Davis became president of the Confederacy, his wife, Varina Howell Davis, reluctantly became the First Lady. For this highly intelligent, acutely observant woman, loyalty did not come easily: she spent long years struggling to reconcile her societal duties to her personal beliefs. Raised in Mississippi but educated in Philadelphia, and a long-time resident of Washington, D.C., Mrs. Davis never felt at ease in Richmond. During the war she nursed Union prisoners and secretly corresponded with friends in the North. Though she publicly supported the South, her term as First Lady was plagued by rumors of her disaffection. After the war, Varina Davis endured financial woes and the loss of several children, but following her husband's death in 1889, she moved to New York and began a career in journalism. Here she advocated reconciliation between the North and South and became friends with Julia Grant, the widow of Ulysses S. Grant. She shocked many by declaring in a newspaper that it was God's will that the North won the war. A century after Varina Davis's death in 1906, Joan E. Cashin has written a masterly work, the first definitive biography of this truly modern, but deeply conflicted, woman. Pro-slavery but also pro-Union, Varina Davis was inhibited by her role as Confederate First Lady and unable to reveal her true convictions. In this pathbreaking book, Cashin offers a splendid portrait of a fascinating woman who struggled with the constraints of her time and place.
First Lady Of The South
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Author : Ishbel Ross
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 1973
First Lady Of The South written by Ishbel Ross and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This biography of Varina Davis tells of the "early days of her marriage to Jefferson Davis, the controversial figure who would become president of the Confederacy. The story shifts from Washington to Richmond, the years of war, follows their journeying to and fro, in the weeks and months of escape. And then exile --after Jefferson Davis' release from prison."
The Black First Lady Of The Confederacy Other Key Blacks Of The Confederate South
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Author : Info Lordz
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2021-12-13
The Black First Lady Of The Confederacy Other Key Blacks Of The Confederate South written by Info Lordz and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-13 with categories.
The Black First Lady of The Confederacy & Other Key Blacks of the Confederate South touches on what has been hidden from Americans (black and white) in our southern confederate history . When we think of the confederate south we think about racism and of course the civil war . But we never look into that era for any free ( not freed ) black people and what their roles was during this period in our American history . We mention people Like carina Davis the First Lady of the Confederate White House and many other people of color that was free people in a time and place when we are thought to believe all people of color was slaves .
Queen Of The Confederacy
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Author : Elizabeth Wittenmyer Lewis
language : en
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Release Date : 2002
Queen Of The Confederacy written by Elizabeth Wittenmyer Lewis and has been published by University of North Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This is a story of a remarkable woman - Lucy Holcombe Pickens - the wife of Francis Wilkinson Pickens, governor of South Carolina on the eve of the Civil War.
The First Lady Of The Confederacy
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Author : Gamaliel Bradford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1925
The First Lady Of The Confederacy written by Gamaliel Bradford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1925 with categories.
The First Lady And The Rebel
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Author : Susan Higginbotham
language : en
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Release Date : 2019-10-01
The First Lady And The Rebel written by Susan Higginbotham and has been published by Sourcebooks, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-01 with Fiction categories.
From celebrated author Susan Higginbotham comes an incredible book about Abraham Lincoln's First Lady and, on the other side of the Civil War, her sister. A Union's First Lady As the Civil War cracks the country in two, Mary Lincoln stands beside her husband praying for a swift Northern victory. But as the body count rises, Mary can't help but fear each bloody gain. Because her beloved sister Emily is across party lines, fighting for the South, and Mary is at risk of losing both her country and her family in the tides of a brutal war. A Confederate Rebel's Wife Emily Todd Helm has married the love of her life. But when her husband's southern ties pull them into a war neither want to join, she must make a choice. Abandon the family she has built in the South or become a true rebel woman fighting against the sister she has always loved best. With a country's legacy at stake, how will two sisters shape history? A Civil War book about two women determined to do the right thing, The First Lady and the Rebel is sure to inspire fans of Marie Benedict and Stephanie Dray.
Varina
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Author : Charles Frazier
language : en
Publisher: Ecco
Release Date : 2018
Varina written by Charles Frazier and has been published by Ecco this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with FICTION categories.
"Her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects the secure life of a Mississippi landowner. Davis instead pursues a career in politics and is eventually appointed president of the Confederacy, placing Varina at the white-hot center of one of the darkest moments in American history"--
Confederate Women
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Author : Bell Irvin Wiley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Confederate Women written by Bell Irvin Wiley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with United States categories.
"Southern women of the 1860's, as here revealed with the help of their own letters and diaries, were decidedly not the clinging vines described in romantic writings of later years. In a very real sense, the tragic Civil War was, for the Confederates, a women's war. Women were ardent in advocating secession. Women were indefatigable in running farms and families and infirmaries while their men fought. Throughout the hopeless war, the women conducted themselves in ways that earned the solid respect of their men, and in ways that won for women the first measured gains toward equality ... Bell Irvin Wiley writes at length of such exemplary Confederate women, Mary Boykin Chesnut, a genuine intellectual who became the wife of a senator and military aide to Jefferson Davis; Virginia Tunstall Clay, whose husband (a U.S. senator and then a Confederate senator) was, after Lincoln's assassination, held at Fort Monroe for a year without trial; and Varina Howell Davis, the aristocratic First Lady of the Confederacy"--Jacket.
Capital Dames
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Author : Cokie Roberts
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2015-04-14
Capital Dames written by Cokie Roberts and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-14 with History categories.
In this engrossing and informative companion to her New York Times bestsellers Founding Mothers and Ladies of Liberty, Cokie Roberts marks the sesquicentennial of the Civil War by offering a riveting look at Washington, D.C. and the experiences, influence, and contributions of its women during this momentous period of American history. With the outbreak of the Civil War, the small, social Southern town of Washington, D.C. found itself caught between warring sides in a four-year battle that would determine the future of the United States. After the declaration of secession, many fascinating Southern women left the city, leaving their friends—such as Adele Cutts Douglas and Elizabeth Blair Lee—to grapple with questions of safety and sanitation as the capital was transformed into an immense Union army camp and later a hospital. With their husbands, brothers, and fathers marching off to war, either on the battlefield or in the halls of Congress, the women of Washington joined the cause as well. And more women went to the Capital City to enlist as nurses, supply organizers, relief workers, and journalists. Many risked their lives making munitions in a highly flammable arsenal, toiled at the Treasury Department printing greenbacks to finance the war, and plied their needlework skills at The Navy Yard—once the sole province of men—to sew canvas gunpowder bags for the troops. Cokie Roberts chronicles these women's increasing independence, their political empowerment, their indispensable role in keeping the Union unified through the war, and in helping heal it once the fighting was done. She concludes that the war not only changed Washington, it also forever changed the place of women. Sifting through newspaper articles, government records, and private letters and diaries—many never before published—Roberts brings the war-torn capital into focus through the lives of its formidable women.
Civil War Wives
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Author : Carol Berkin
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2009-09-08
Civil War Wives written by Carol Berkin and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-08 with History categories.
In these moving stories if Angelina Grimké Weld, wife of abolitionist Theodore Weld, Varina Howell Davis, wife of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, and Julia Dent grant, wife of Ulysses S. Grant, Carol Berkin reveals how women understood the cataclysmic events of their day. Their stories, taken together, help reconstruct the era of the Civil War with a greater depth and complexity by adding women's experiences and voices to their male counterparts.