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• Publisher : University of North Texas Press
• File Size : 28,5 Mb
• Release Date : 02 June 2024

This is a story of a remarkable woman - Lucy Holcombe Pickens - the wife of Francis Wilkinson Pickens, governor of South Carolina on the eve of the Civil War.

• Publisher : Harvard University Press
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• Release Date : 01 July 2009

When Jefferson Davis became president of the Confederacy, his wife, Varina Howell Davis, reluctantly became the First Lady. For this highly intelligent, acutely observant woman, loyalty did not come easily:

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• File Size : 40,9 Mb
• Release Date : 02 June 2024

"The wife of South Carolina secessionist governor Francis W. Pickens and known as the "Queen of the Confederacy," Lucy Holcombe Pickens (1832-1899) was during her lifetime one of the most

• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• File Size : 33,7 Mb
• Release Date : 15 February 2009

When Jefferson Davis became president of the Confederacy, his wife, Varina Howell Davis, reluctantly became the First Lady. For this highly intelligent, acutely observant woman, loyalty did not come easily:

• Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
• File Size : 47,8 Mb
• Release Date : 01 December 2007

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize “A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”—The New York Times Book Review A Confederacy

• Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
• File Size : 43,9 Mb
• Release Date : 20 November 1998

From the Chesapeake incident off the coast of Nova Scotia, through the St Albans Raid from Quebec into Vermont, to the reinforcing of garrisons across British North America in response

• Publisher : Roc
• File Size : 52,6 Mb
• Release Date : 20 July 1995

Twenty-five original Civil War stories include tales of horror and dark fantasy by such writers as Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg, William S. Burroughs, S. P. Somtow, Anne McCaffrey, and

• Publisher : Legare Street Press
• File Size : 42,8 Mb
• Release Date : 27 October 2022

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public

• Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
• File Size : 25,6 Mb
• Release Date : 02 June 2024

The United States had important ties with Canada's Maritime Provinces that were profoundly shaken by the American Civil War. Drawing extensively on newspaper reports, personal papers, and local histories, Greg

• Publisher : NYLA
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• Release Date : 11 July 2018

When the Quint Confederacy and the Kos Empire went to war—again—Queen Samara wisely kept her Rogue Coalition out of the conflict. But staying neutral in a galactic war