Varina Howell, Volume 1
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Varina Howell, Volume 1

Wife of Jefferson Davis

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Varina Howell, Volume 1

Wife of Jefferson Davis

About this book

"Varina Davis is a lady in any event, " Southern women of the aristocratic circles of Washington told the war correspondent of the London Times who had been sent to the National Capital to report all the news he could gather concerning the secession of the Southern States from the great American Union. There was a finality in their tones and manner as if the fact settled the whole question and right of secession. And being such perfect ladies themselves, who could be a better judge of what it took to be one.... They further informed him that Varina was popular and had friends and social influence in Washington, adding with pursed lips that she belonged to the set they called nice people; not like such people as he had seen in the White House. Thus Mrs. Jefferson Davis was described to one who, with piqued curiosity, was soon to meet her as the First Lady of the Southern Confederacy.... But Varina Howell Davis came proudly to her high station. She was not without a due understanding of its significance, nor was she without the feeling that she, in some degree, deserved the distinction." --from Chapter I

In this volume, Mrs. Rowland has written a charming and accurate historical narrative of the Southern Confederacy in which the wife of Jefferson Davis plays a part that holds and fascinates the reader. The narrative, written in an easy, yet frank and forceful style, denotes the work as an important contribution to American biography.

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Information

Publisher
Pelican Publishing
Year
2000
Print ISBN
9781565547865
eBook ISBN
9781455613540
Topic
History
Subtopic
Historical Biographies
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. ILLUSTRATIONS
  3. FOREWORD
  4. CHAPTER I: ANCESTRY—THE HOWELLS
  5. CHAPTER II: ANCESTRY—THE KEMPES
  6. CHAPTER III: BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD
  7. CHAPTER IV: EARLY ENVIRONMENT
  8. CHAPTER V: GIRLHOOD
  9. CHAPTER VI: AT "THE HURRICANE"
  10. CHAPTER VII: IN CLOSER TOUCH
  11. CHAPTER VIII: HOLIDAY PLEASURES
  12. CHAPTER IX: LOVERS
  13. CHAPTER X: ENGAGEMENT. GIRLHOOD CONFIDENCES
  14. CHAPTER XI: WHIG AND DEMOCRAT
  15. CHAPTER XII: MARRIAGE
  16. CHAPTER XIII: THE BRIDAL TOUR
  17. CHAPTER XIV: BRIERFIELD
  18. CHAPTER XV: IN PUBLIC LIFE. VISIT OF CALHOUN
  19. CHAPTER XVI: ACCOMPANIES HER HUSBAND TO WASHINGTON
  20. CHAPTER XVII: FIRST GLIMPSES OF WASHINGTON
  21. CHAPTER XVIII: A CONGRESSMAN'S WIFE
  22. CHAPTER XIX: EARLY INCIDENTS OF WASHINGTON LIFE
  23. CHAPTER XX: DAY AT THE NATIONAL EXHIBITION
  24. CHAPTER XXI: FACES OUT OF THE PAST
  25. CHAPTER XXII: WAR WITH MEXICO
  26. CHAPTER XXIII: A SOLDIER'S WIFE
  27. CHAPTER XXIV: MONTEREY AND BUENA VISTA
  28. CHAPTER XXV: RETURN OF THE VOLUNTEERS
  29. CHAPTER XXVI: "BRIERFIELD" REOPENED
  30. CHAPTER XXVII: FROM BRIERFIELD TO THE SENATE
  31. CHAPTER XXVIII: A SENATOR'S WIFE
  32. CHAPTER XXIX: CUBAN INCIDENT: SOCIAL LIFE OF THE THIRTIETH CONGRESS
  33. CHAPTER XXX: THE FIRST CRISIS
  34. CHAPTER XXXI: FROM BRIERFIELD TO THE CABINET
  35. CHAPTER XXXII: WIFE OF A CABINET OFFICER
  36. CHAPTER XXXIII: FIRST SORROW. HUSBAND'S LABORS AS WAR MINISTER
  37. CHAPTER XXXIV: SALON AND PORTRAIT GALLERY
  38. CHAPTER XXXV: THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. OLD ISSUES REVIVED
  39. CHAPTER XXXVI: SECESSION RAISES ITS HEAD
  40. CHAPTER XXXVII: A SUMMER IN NEW ENGLAND
  41. CHAPTER XXXVIII: POLITICAL AND SOCIAL
  42. CHAPTER XXXIX: DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION IN CHARLESTON, 1860
  43. CHAPTER XL: SECESSION OF SOUTH CAROLINA
  44. CHAPTER XLI: SOUTH CAROLINA INVITES THE OTHER SOUTHERN STATES TO JOIN HER IN SECESSION
  45. CHAPTER XLII: THE RETURN SOUTH
  46. CHAPTER XLIII: A PRESIDENT'S WIFE
  47. CHAPTER XLIV: LAST DAYS AT "BRIERFIELD"
  48. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  49. INDEX