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Bookmark or Share- Varina Davis - WikipediaVarina 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.
- Varina Davis (1826–1906) - Encyclopedia VirginiaVarina 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 Washington, D.C.
- The First Lady of the Confederacy Considers Her Painful PastThe much younger second wife of Jefferson Davis, who presided over an imaginary country called the Confederate States of America, Varina Davis has escaped the opprobrium of statues dedicated in...
- Charles Frazier’s new novel relates the untold story of Varina Davis ...It was in the back alleys of historical research that he found the subject of his new novel, “Varina,” a woman 21st century America knows little or nothing about — Varina Davis, Jefferson...
- Amazon.com: Varina: A Novel: Frazier, Charles: BooksThe Confederacy falling, her marriage in tatters, and the country divided, Varina and her children escape Richmond and travel south on their own, now fugitives with “bounties on their heads, an entire nation in pursuit.”
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