Queen of the Confederacy: the innocent deceits of Lucy Holcombe Pickens
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Main Author: Lewis, Elizabeth Wittenmyer (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Denton University of North Texas Press c2002
Edition:1st ed
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-242) and index
Machine generated contents note: 1-Chapter One * Changing Times * 1830-1840 -- 8-Chapter Two * Riches have taken to themselves wings 1840-1846 -- 18-Chapter Three * If she wears blue stockings 1846-1849 -- 27-Chapter Four * A stranger in a strange land * 1850 -- 36-Chapter Five * My spirit is restless * 1851 -- 43-Chapter Six * The only kindred blood I ever knew * 1851 -- 49-Chapter Seven * My home is in the prairied West 1852-1857 -- 62-Chapter Eight * The Marriage Mart of The South * 1857 -- 73-Chapter Nine * The heart hath reason * 1858 -- 79-Chapter Ten * Talking of elevated and mighty themes * 1858 -- 87-Chapter Eleven * The confused sound * 1858 -- 92-Chapter Twelve * It was very marked and not known * 1859 -- Illustrations -- 101-Chapter Thirteen * I suspect it will look more like a Muscovite -- 1859-60 -- 108-Chapter Fourteen * There is nothing real * 1860 -- 116-Chapter Fifteen * I find myself going up the hill * 1860 -- 126-Chapter Sixteen * I am where duty and honor demand 1861 -- 134-Chapter Seventeen * It was grand-it was awful * 1861 -- 141-Chapter Eighteen * Submissiveness is not my role * 1862 -- 148-Chapter Nineteen * The only comfort in all this misery 1861-63 -- 158-Chapter Twenty * A volcano under that exterior * 1863-65 -- 165-Chapter Twenty-one * Out of the dead, cold ashes 1865-69 -- 177-Chapter Twenty-two * Rouse yourself 1869-1875 -- 184-Chapter Twenty-three * TheJoan of Arc of Carolina 1876-1893 -- 192-Chapter Twenty-four * We do not forget! 1894-1899 -- 199-Epilogue -- 203-Appendix A On Leaving Villa De Lanski -- 206-Appendix B Pickens Genealogy -- 208-Appendix C Holcombe Genealogy
Lucy Holcombe Pickens was not content to live the life of a 19th-century Southern belle. Wife of Francis Wilkinson Pickens, the governor of South Carolina on the eve of Civil war, Lucy was determined to make her mark on the world. This work offers an initmate portrait of the great lady
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 253 p., [16] p. of plates)
ISBN:1417515031
1433710315
9781417515035
9781433710315

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