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Occupation. Writer. Parents. Jefferson Davis (father) Varina Howell (mother) 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 ...
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.
Learn about the life and legacy of Varina Anne Davis, the youngest daughter of Confederate president Jefferson Davis. Explore her education, literary works, romance, and death from the online collection of her father's papers.
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Dec 22, 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. She was a native of the urban South, a moderate on slavery, and a loyal but unhappy wife who preferred Washington, D.C. to Richmond.
Mar 20, 2017 · Learn about the life and love of Varina Anne \"Winnie\" Davis, the daughter of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and a controversial figure in the Lost Cause. Discover how she fell for a Northern lawyer with abolitionist roots in Syracuse, New York.
The years immediately following the Civil War brought further trials as Varina Davis coped with her husband’s imprisonment at Fort Monroe, Virginia, from 1865–1867 and the deaths of three more of her children. Following Jefferson Davis’s death in 1889, she moved permanently to New York City.
When Varina Anne Davis was born on 27 June 1864, in Richmond, Virginia, United States, her father, President Jefferson Finis Davis Sr, was 56 and her mother, First Lady of the Confederacy Varina Anne Banks Howell, was 38.