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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780674029262
035 _a(DE-B1597)457576
035 _a(OCoLC)999353343
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050 4 _aE467.1.D27C36 2008
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aCashin, Joan E.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aFirst Lady of the Confederacy :
_bVarina Davis’s Civil War /
_cJoan E. Cashin.
264 1 _aCambridge, MA :
_bHarvard University Press,
_c[2009]
264 4 _c2008
300 _a1 online resource (416 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tList of Illustrations --
_tIntroduction --
_t1. Half Breed --
_t2. This Mr. Davis --
_t3. Flattered and Courted --
_t4. First Lady --
_t5. No Matter What Danger There Was --
_t6. Holocausts of Herself --
_t7. Run with the Rest --
_t8. Threadbare Great Folks --
_t9. Topic of the Day --
_t10. Crowd of Sorrows --
_t11. Fascinating Failures --
_t12. The Girdled Tree --
_t13. Delectable City --
_t14. Like Martha --
_t15. At Peace --
_tNotes --
_tA Note on Sources --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aWhen 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, Varina Davis endured financial woes and the loss of several children, but following her husband's death in 1889, she moved to New York and began a career in journalism. Here she advocated reconciliation between the North and South and became friends with Julia Grant, the widow of Ulysses S. Grant. She shocked many by declaring in a newspaper that it was God's will that the North won the war.A century after Varina Davis's death in 1906, Joan E. Cashin has written a masterly work, the first definitive biography of this truly modern, but deeply conflicted, woman. Pro-slavery but also pro-Union, Varina Davis was inhibited by her role as Confederate First Lady and unable to reveal her true convictions. In this pathbreaking book, Cashin offers a splendid portrait of a fascinating woman who struggled with the constraints of her time and place.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Oct 2024)
650 0 _aPresidents' spouses
_xBiography
_xConfederate States of America.
650 0 _aPresidents' spouses
_zConfederate States of America
_vBiography.
650 7 _aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.4159/9780674029262?locatt=mode:legacy
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674029262
856 4 2 _3Cover
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