First Lady of the Confederacy: Varina Davis. Joan E. Cashin, Joan E Cashin

First Lady of the Confederacy: Varina Davis



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First Lady of the Confederacy: Varina Davis Joan E. Cashin, Joan E Cashin ebook
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Page: 416
ISBN: 9780674029262


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, ...

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