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Winnie Davis: Daughter of the Lost Cause
Winnie Davis: Daughter of the Lost Cause
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Winnie Davis, the youngest daughter of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, was born in 1864 during the war. She became an icon of the Lost Cause after returning to the South from German boarding school. Her controversial engagement to a Northerner and her move to New York City shocked her friends and family.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 248 pages
Publication date: 28 November 2020
Publisher: Potomac Books Inc
Varina Anne "Winnie" Davis, born in 1864 in the midst of a war-torn South, holds a unique place in history as the youngest daughter of Confederate president Jefferson Davis and his second wife, Varina Howell Davis. Her birth, just a month after the tragic death of Confederate hero general J.E.B. Stuart during a string of Confederate victories, was seen as an omen of victory by war-weary Southerners. However, the tide of war eventually turned against the Confederacy, and Winnie's early life took a different course. After returning to the South from a German boarding school, Winnie was baptized as the "Daughter of the Confederacy" in 1886. She became an icon of the Lost Cause, revered by Confederate veterans and the United Daughters of the Confederacy, surpassing even her father in popularity. "Winnie Davis: Daughter of the Lost Cause" is the first published biography of this lesser-known woman who inadvertently became the female symbol of the defeated South. Winnie's controversial engagement in 1890 to a Northerner lawyer whose grandfather was a renowned abolitionist and her subsequent move to work as a writer in New York City shocked her friends, family, and the Southern groups who had worshipped her. Faced with the pressures of a community that violently rejected the match, Winnie desperately attempted to reconcile her prominent Old South history with her personal desire for tolerance. Her journey is a testament to the complexities and contradictions of a society grappling with the aftermath of a devastating war.
Weight: 358g
Dimension: 152 x 227 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781640123595
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