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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".
Heavily involved in many organizations, she became the historian general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), and a speech given for the UDC was the first by a woman to be recorded in the Congressional Record. She was a prolific writer in historical subjects and an advocate of the Lost Cause narrative.
Lost Cause historians instead favor the more moderate postwar views of Confederate leaders. [21] The Lost Cause argument stresses secession as a defense against a Northern threat to a Southern way of life and declares that this threat violated the states' rights guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States. The Lost Cause's assertion ...
The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) is an American neo-Confederate [1] hereditary association for female descendants of Confederate Civil War soldiers engaging in the commemoration of these ancestors, the funding of monuments to them, and the promotion of the pseudohistorical Lost Cause ideology and corresponding white supremacy.
Dennis Bowman, a former Navy reservist, and his wife, Brenda Bowman, are Aundria’s adoptive parents. The couple met in high school and share one biological daughter, Vanessa, who was only 1 year ...
Wedding photograph of Jefferson Davis and Varina Howell, 1845. Jefferson Davis was a 35-year-old widower when he and Varina met. His first wife, Sarah Knox Taylor, daughter of his commanding officer Zachary Taylor while he was in the Army, had died of malaria three months after their wedding in 1835.
ALLEGAN COUNTY — A longtime Allegan County cold case solved after 30 years is now the subject of a new Netflix documentary. “Into the Fire: The Lost Daughter” was released on the streaming ...
The recent release of Into the Fire: The Lost Daughter, a trending documentary on Netflix, gives a glimpse into the Bowman household.