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15 de abr. de 2014 · Heath Hardage Lee. Potomac Books, Inc., Apr 15, 2014 - Biography & Autobiography - 248 pages. 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 ...
She inherited her mother's literary interests and later authored a biographical monograph (1888) and two novels (1888, 1895), all published under the name Varina Anne Jefferson Davis. "The Daughter of the Confederacy," as John B. Gordon anointed her in 1886, lived with her parents at Beauvoir in the 1880s and accompanied her father to numerous public appearances.
Much of Jefferson Davis' life and career has been obscured in controversy and misinterpretation. This full, carefully annotated edition will make it possible for scholars to reassess the man who served as President of the Confederacy and who in the aftermath of war became the symbolic leader of the South.For almost a decade a dedicated team of scholars has been collecting and documenting Davis ...
After Jefferson Davis' death in 1889, Varina Davis published Jefferson Davis, A Memoir in 1890, then moved to New York City the following year to pursue a literary career. For more information on Varina Howell Davis, see the Jefferson Davis Bibliography and the published volumes of The Papers of Jefferson Davis .
Davis, American (2000). Historians have said of Jefferson Davis, American that comprehensive portrait of Davis, one of the most complicated and controversial figures in U.S. history, shows a sometimes misunderstood. inner coherence in the West Point graduate, war hero, secretary of war, U.S. senator, Confederate. dent, and icon of the Lost Cause.
Jefferson Davis Mississippi Department of Archives and History , 1923 - Confederate States of America The true story of the Southern Confederacy lies in the letters, speeches, and State papers of its leaders; and its best justification will come after such historical materials have been made accessible to the truth-loving historian of the future.
