First lady of the Confederacy [electronic resource] : Varina Davis's Civil War / Joan E. Cashin.
Cashin, Joan E.
2006
E467.1.D27 C36 2006eb
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Title First lady of the Confederacy [electronic resource] : Varina Davis's Civil War / Joan E. Cashin.
Author Cashin, Joan E.
ISBN 9780674029262 (electronic bk.)
0674022947
9780674022942
9780674030374
Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (403 p.) : ill.
Call Number E467.1.D27 C36 2006eb
Summary In this first academic biography of Jefferson Davis's wife, Varina, Cashin (Ohio State Univ.) presents an engaging look at the Confederacy's first lady, who surprisingly did not believe in the Southern cause. Much of the book, however, focuses on Davis's life after the Civil War, when she struggled to support her penniless husband and later managed her own survival as a widow for over 25 years. Varina Davis drew vast criticism during the postbellum years from her fellow Southerners for her controversial views on the war, particularly when she proclaimed that God's will had provided the North's victory. In spite of the disparagement , Davis spend much of her later life publicly working toward mending the rift between North and South, moving to New York and even befriending the wife of former Union general Ulysses Grant. While the narrative occasionally leans toward overt sympathy, Cashin's study presents an otherwise objective analysis of the tragic Davis and her often-vilified husband.
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Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-391) and index.
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Half breed
This Mr. Davis
Flattered and courted
First lady
No matter what danger there was
Holocausts of herself
Run with the rest
Threadbare great folks
Topic of the day
Crowd of sorrows
Fascinating failures
The girdled tree
Delectable city (New York City)
Like Martha
At peace.

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