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First Lady of the Confederacy : Varina Davis's Civil War /
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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2009]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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