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Varina Howell Davis (1826–1906) Varina Howell Davis was born near Natchez, Mississippi, on May 7, 1826. At eighteen, when she married Jefferson Davis, who was twice her age, she had developed a lively intellect and polished social graces. In Richmond during the Civil War, as the wife of the President of the Confederacy, Varina Davis admirably ...
Varina Davis was well-educated and possessed as strong a will as her husband. They had their differences at times over the fifty-four years of their marriage, but they remained devoted to each other through several decades of remarkable hardship. After Jefferson Davis' death in 1889, Varina Davis published
30. Apr. 2018 · A widower twice her age in a state of perpetual mourning for his first wife, Jefferson Davis was a “girdled tree,” Varina realized, “bark cut and peeled away past the living flesh.” During ...
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. It was through this connection that Varina met her future husband in 1843 while she and her father visited with the elder Davis at his Hurricane Plantation ...
16. Aug. 2019 · Varina Davis. Originally aired on November 14, 1997 - In part 168 of our Civil War series, Virginia Tech history professor James Robertson profiles the only first lady of the Confederate States of ...
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 in part because of her family background and her fifteen-year antebellum residence in Washington, D.C. A native of the urban South, she always preferred the city to the country, and after ...
Varina Anne „Winnie“ Davis (geboren am 27. Juni 1864 in Richmond, Virginia; gestorben am 18. September 1898 in Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island) war eine amerikanische Schriftstellerin und Künstlerin. Als jüngste Tochter des Präsidenten der Konföderierten Staaten von Amerika, Jefferson Davis, wurde sie nach Ende des Bürgerkriegs von ...
