Queen of the Confederacy
Subtitle: the innocent deceits of Lucy Holcombe Pickens
By: by Elizabeth Wittenmyer Lewis.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Denton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
Subjects: Pickens, Lucy Petaway Holcombe.; Governors' spouses -- South Carolina -- Biography.; Women -- Confederate States of America -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "This is the story of a remarkable woman - Lucy Holcombe Pickens - the wife of Francis Wilkinson Pickens, governor of South Carolina on the eve of the Civil War.".

"Lucy was not content to live the life of a typical nineteenth-centrry Southern belle. "Submissiveness is not my role, but certain platitudes on certain occasions are among the innocent deceits of the sex." A strong character with fervent beliefs, she was determined to make her mark in the world.

She married "the right man," feeling that "a woman with wealth or prestige garnered from her husband's position could attain great power." She urged Pickens to accept a diplomatic mission to the court of Tsar Alexander II of Russia, and in St. Petersburg Lucy captivated the Tsar and his retinue with her beauty and charm. Upon returning to the states, she became First Lady of South Carolina just in time to encourage a Carolinian unit named in her honor (The Holcombe Legion) off to war."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-242) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1-Chapter One * Changing Times * 1830-1840; title: 8-Chapter Two * Riches have taken to themselves wings  1840-1846; title: 18-Chapter Three * If she wears blue stockings 1846-1849; title: 27-Chapter Four * A stranger in a strange land * 1850; title: 36-Chapter Five * My spirit is restless * 1851; title: 43-Chapter Six * The only kindred blood I ever knew * 1851; title: 49-Chapter Seven * My home is in the prairied West 1852-1857; title: 62-Chapter Eight * The Marriage Mart of The South * 1857; title: 73-Chapter Nine * The heart hath reason * 1858; title: 79-Chapter Ten * Talking of elevated and mighty themes * 1858; title: 87-Chapter Eleven * The confused sound * 1858; title: 92-Chapter Twelve * It was very marked and not known * 1859; title: Illustrations; title: 101-Chapter Thirteen * I suspect it will look more like a Muscovite; title: .1859-60; title: 108-Chapter Fourteen * There is nothing real * 1860; title: 116-Chapter Fifteen * I find myself going up the hill * 1860; title: 126-Chapter Sixteen * I am where duty and honor demand 1861; title: 134-Chapter Seventeen * It was grand-it was awful * 1861; title: 141-Chapter Eighteen * Submissiveness is not my role * 1862; title: 148-Chapter Nineteen * The only comfort in all this misery 1861-63; title: 158-Chapter Twenty * A volcano under that exterior * 1863-65; title: 165-Chapter Twenty-one * Out of the dead, cold ashes 1865-69; title: 177-Chapter Twenty-two * Rouse yourself 1869-1875; title: 184-Chapter Twenty-three * TheJoan of Arc of Carolina 1876-1893; title: 192-Chapter Twenty-four * We do not forget! 1894-1899; title: 199-Epilogue; title: 203-Appendix A On Leaving Villa De Lanski; title: 206-Appendix B Pickens Genealogy; title: 208-Appendix C Holcombe Genealogy.