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Winnie Davis : Daughter of the Lost Cause /

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 vic...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lee, Heath Hardage
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln, NE : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.