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Varina Banks Howell Davis (geboren am 7. Mai 1826 in Natchez, Mississippi; gestorben am 16. Oktober 1906 in Manhattan, New York) war die zweite Ehefrau von Jefferson Davis, dem Präsidenten der Konföderierten Staaten von Amerika von 1861 bis 1865. Sie erarbeitete sich nach dem Tod ihres Mannes einen Ruf als Journalistin und ...
Varina Anne Banks Davis ( née Howell; May 7, 1826 – October 16, 1906) was the only First Lady of the Confederate States of America, and the longtime second wife of President Jefferson Davis. She moved to the Presidential Mansion in Richmond, Virginia, in mid-1861, and lived there for the remainder of the Civil War.
22. Dez. 2021 · Varina Howell Davis was the second wife of Confederate president Jefferson Davis and the First Lady of the Confederacy during the American Civil War (1861–1865). She was manifestly ill-suited for this role because of her family background, education, personality, physical appearance, and her fifteen-year antebellum residence in ...
The First Lady of the Confederate States of America, Varina Howell Davis (1826–1906) was born in Louisiana, across the Mississippi River from Natchez, Mississippi, to William and Margaret Howell.
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...
4. Dez. 2017 · Varina Davis. The second wife of Jefferson Davis was born at "The Briars" in Natchez, Mississippi, in 1826. Her father, William Burr Howell, was a close friend of Davis' older brother, Joe.
Born May 7, 1826, into the small, tightlyknit oligarchy of planters clustered around the Mississippi River before the Civil War, Varina Howell Davis was the second child of William and Margaret Howell of Natchez, Mississippi, both of whom were descended from distinguished Southern families.
