Varina - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Varina write by Charles Frazier. This book was released on 2018. Varina available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects the secure life of a Mississippi landowner. Davis instead pursues a career in politics and is eventually appointed president of the Confederacy, placing Varina at the white-hot center of one of the darkest moments in American history"--
First Lady of the Confederacy
First Lady of the Confederacy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook First Lady of the Confederacy write by Joan E. Cashin. This book was released on 2009-07-01. First Lady of the Confederacy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When 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.
Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jefferson Davis write by Varina Davis. This book was released on 1890. Jefferson Davis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Cold Mountain
Cold Mountain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cold Mountain write by Charles Frazier. This book was released on 2007-12-01. Cold Mountain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A wounded Confederate soldier treks across the ruins of America in this National Book Award–winning novel: “A stirring Civil War tale told with epic sweep.” —People Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, a Confederate soldier named Inman decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge mountains to Ada, the woman he loves. His journey across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slaves and marauders, bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign. Meanwhile, the intrepid Ada is trying to revive her father’s derelict farm and learning to survive in a world where the old certainties have been swept away. As it interweaves their stories, Cold Mountain asserts itself as an authentic odyssey, hugely powerful, majestically lovely, and keenly moving.
Varina Howell, Wife of Jefferson Davis
Varina Howell, Wife of Jefferson Davis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Varina Howell, Wife of Jefferson Davis write by Eron Rowland. This book was released on 1927. Varina Howell, Wife of Jefferson Davis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first volume of this Biography has received flattering reviews from critics on the staff of the Nation, the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Boston Transcript and the London Times. Both Gamaliel Bradford and William E. Dodd have been warm in their commendation of the second volume. In this volume Mrs. Rowland had written a charming and accurate historical narrative of the Southern Confederacy in which the wife of Jefferson Davis played a part that holds and fascinates the reader. The narrative written in an easy, graceful yet frank and forceful style, places the work among the year's important contributions to American biography.
