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4 de dic. de 2017 · Varina Davis. The second wife of Jefferson Davis was born at "The Briars" in Natchez, Mississippi, in 1826. Her father, William Burr Howell, was a close friend of Davis' older brother, Joe. It was through this connection that Varina met her future husband in 1843 while she and her father visited with the elder Davis at his Hurricane Plantation ...
22 de dic. de 2021 · SUMMARY. Varina Howell Davis was the second wife of Confederate president Jefferson Davis and the First Lady of the Confederacy during the American Civil War (1861–1865). She was manifestly ill-suited for this role because of her family background, education, personality, physical appearance, and her fifteen-year antebellum residence in ...
Varina Howell Davis was the second wife of Confederate president Jefferson Davis and the First Lady of the Confederacy during the American Civil War (1861–1865). She was manifestly ill-suited for this role in part because of her family background and her fifteen-year antebellum residence in Washington, D.C. A native of the urban South, she always preferred the city to the country, and after ...
3 de abr. de 2018 · Varina Davis is the narrator, second wife of Jefferson Davis, the only President of the Confederate States, and she must find safety for herself and her children, including the young boy named James, and a few others. They are traveling through the remains of towns, by homes that have likely been raided multiple times, already.
1 de jul. de 2009 · 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.
Varina Howell Davis (1826-1906) was the second wife of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America, and thus the only first lady of the Confederacy. Born in rural Louisiana to a family with roots in both the North and the South, she was educated at a boarding school in Philadelphia. She married Davis, a widower, in 1845. She is known to have been skeptical about the South's ...
30 de abr. de 2018 · In Charles Frazier’s novel “Varina,” a late-life meeting with a former slave triggers painful memories for the much younger wife of Jefferson Davis.
