Winnie Davis
Subtitle: daughter of the lost cause
By: Heath Hardage Lee ; foreword by J.E.B. Stuart IV ; epilogue coauthored by Bertram Hayes-Davis
Publisher: Potomac Books, Incorporated
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781612346373
Subjects: Family; Children of presidents; Biography
Description: Chronicles the life of the daughter of Jefferson Davis who was christened the "Daughter of the Confederacy" and provided hope to a war-weary South, until a series of controversies placed her at odds with her supporters.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A tragic fall; title: My name is a heritage of woe; title: Escape, capture, and Fort Monroe; title: A fatal romance; title: Scandal and sickness; title: Boarding school blues and the Dorsey dilemma; title: Yellow fever; title: Portrait of a lady; title: Daughter of the Confederacy; title: Life in a fishbowl; title: I will never consent!; title: Engagement issues; title: Italian idyll; title: Dear diary; title: A world on fire; title: Queen of a mystic court; title: New York, new woman; title: The last casualty of the lost cause; title: Death and maiden; title: Epilogue: the great-great-grandson of the Confederacy and the daughter of New York.