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Winnie Davis Daughter of the Lost Cause / Heath Hardage Lee ; foreword by J.E.B. Stuart IV ; epilogue coauthored by Bertram Hayes-Davis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lee, Heath Hardage.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children of presidents--Confederate States of America--Biography.
- Children of presidents.
- Confederate States of America--Biography.
- Confederate States of America.
- Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889--Family.
- Davis, Varina Anne, 1864-1898.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (247 p.)
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2014
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln, NE : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Varina Anne ôWinnieö Davis was born into a war-torn South in June of 1864, the youngest daughter of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his second wife, Varina Howell Davis. Born only a month after the death of beloved Confederate hero General J.E.B. Stuart during a string of Confederate victories, WinnieÆs birth was hailed as a blessing by war-weary Southerners. They felt her arrival was a good omen signifying future victory. But after the ConfederacyÆs ultimate defeat in the Civil War, Winnie would spend her early life as a genteel refugee and a European expatriate abroad. After return
- Contents:
- A tragic fall
- My name is a heritage of woe
- Escape, capture, and Fort Monroe
- A fatal romance
- Scandal and sickness
- Boarding school blues and the Dorsey dilemma
- Yellow fever
- Portrait of a lady
- Daughter of the Confederacy
- Life in a fishbowl
- I will never consent!
- Engagement issues
- Italian idyll
- Dear diary
- A world on fire
- Queen of a mystic court
- New York, new woman
- The last casualty of the lost cause
- Death and maiden
- Epilogue: the great-great-grandson of the Confederacy and the daughter of New York.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-61234-638-3
- OCLC:
- 874029701
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