Varina Anne "Winnie" Davis (June 27, 1864 – September 18, 1898) was an American author who is best known as the youngest daughter of President Jefferson Davis of the Confederate States of America and Varina (Howell) Davis. Born near the end of the war, by the late 1880s she became known as the "Daughter of the Confederacy". Images of her were widely circulated when she was young, helping morale. Later in the 1880s, she appeared with her father on behalf of Confederate veterans' groups. After his death, she and her mother moved in 1891 to New York City, where they both worked as writers. She published a biography and two novels, in addition to numerous articles. Davis died from an infectious disease at age 34.
VarinaAnne "Winnie" Davis (June 27, 1864 – September 18, 1898) was an American author who is best known as the youngest daughter of President Jefferson...
VarinaAnne 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...
Joseph's land and eventually owning as many as 113 slaves. In 1845, Davis married Varina Howell. During the same year, he was elected to the United States...
friendship created a scandal, but both ignored it, and his second wife, VarinaDavis, also came to stay at Dorsey's plantation. In 1878, Dorsey realized she...
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Georgia Railway. Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, was a guest at the house in 1886 with his daughter VarinaAnneDavis. The exterior of the house...
Davis (actress), Australian actress Vanessa Davis (cartoonist) (born 1978), cartoonist VarinaDavis (1826–1906), American social figure VarinaAnne Davis...
Margaret, four-year-old Jefferson Davis, Jr., and two-year-old Joseph. The two youngest Davis children, William and VarinaAnne ("Winnie"), were born in the...
Georgia and South Carolina. It was named for Varina "Winnie" AnneDavis, the daughter of Jefferson Davis and was built to serve as a repository for American...
President Jefferson Davis. At the end of the American Civil War he was captured by the Union Army with Jefferson Davis and VarinaDavis, and imprisoned at...
clients were the wives of elite politicians, including VarinaDavis, the wife of Jefferson Davis, and Mary Anna Custis Lee, the wife of Robert E. Lee....
Summer Isles, now known as Bermuda. He established the Virginia plantation Varina Farms, where he cultivated a new strain of tobacco. Rolfe was a pious man...
Street 1880 Built for Hugh Moss Comer. Jefferson Davis was a guest in 1886 with his daughter VarinaAnneDavis William Hunter House Monterey Ward 10 East Taylor...
states' rights) and it lost. Although VarinaDavis and Willard would continue to correspond over the next decade (as Varina moved to New York after her husband's...
engineer Margaret Kempe Howell (1806–1867), mother of VarinaDavis and mother-in-law of Jefferson Davis Anna Leonowens (1834–1915), governess (Anna of Anna...
well have become romantically involved with Jane Waring, whom he called "Varina", the sister of an old college friend. A letter from him survives, offering...
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