12. Richmond Dispatch, September 24, 1898; LaCavera, Varina Anne “Winnie” Davis, 38.
13. Ross, First Lady of the South, 392.
14. Appleton and Boswell, Searching for Their Places, 144.
15. LaCavera, Varina Anne “Winnie” Davis, 41.
16. Poppenheim et al., History of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1:42.
17. “Winnie Davis,” UDC Magazine, 16, Virginia State Library Archives, Richmond.
18. A Walking Tour of St. Paul’s, brochure, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Richmond, www.stpauls-episcopal.org.
19. Walking Tour of St. Paul’s.
20. Walking Tour of St. Paul’s.
21. Richmond Dispatch, September 24, 1898.
22. Richmond Dispatch, September 24, 1898.
23. Lankford, Richmond Burning, 13.
24. Evening Leader, September 24, 1898, Hobson Family Papers, 1776–1974, sec. 17, VHS.
25. Ross, First Lady of the South; Monsees, “How the Daughter of the Confederacy Almost Became a Daughter of New York”; Van der Heuvel, Crowns of Thorns of Glory, 258.
26. Monsees, “How the Daughter of the Confederacy Almost Became a Daughter of New York”; “Learn of Death of A. C. Wilkinson,” Syracuse Journal, May 28, 1918, OHA.
27. Richmond Dispatch, September 24, 1898.
28. LaCavera, Varina Anne “Winnie” Davis, 45–47.
29. “Tribute of Respect to Miss Winnie Davis,” Walter Barker Chapter, UDC no. 242, Macon MS, September 23, 1898, Helen Walpole Brewer Library and Archives.
30. Hardin, After the War, 21.
31. Letter from Varina Howell Davis to Chancellor Kimbrough, May 10, 1902, ALS, Kimbrough Papers, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, no. Z1210.
32. Cashin, First Lady of the Confederacy, 305.
33. Confederate Veteran Magazine 17 (January–December 1909): 420, Helen Walpole Brewer Library and Archives.
34. Bertram and Carol Hayes-Davis, interview by the author, October 3, 2012, Beauvoir, Biloxi MS; Hayes-Davis (Jefferson) Mississippi Legislative Act, 1890, Z2089.000, Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
35. Hardin, After the War, 20.
EPILOGUE
1. Docent-led tour of Beauvoir, October 3, 2012, Biloxi MS.
2. Beauvoir: The Jefferson Davis Home and Presidential Library—History and Walking Tour Guide. Biloxi MS: Beauvoir, 2008.
3. Bertram and Carol Hayes-Davis, interview by the author, October 3, 2012, Beauvoir, Biloxi MS.
4. Bertram and Carol Hayes-Davis, interview by the author, October 3, 2012.
5. Bertram and Carol Hayes-Davis, interview by the author, October 4, 2012, Beauvoir, Biloxi MS.
6. Emily Wagster Pettus, “For Miss., an Angst-Filled Civil War Anniversary,” Associated Press, August 17, 2012, http://news.yahoo.com/miss-angst-filled-civil-war-anniversary-112249673.html.
7. Bertram and Carol Hayes-Davis, interview by the author, October 4, 2012.
8. Bertram and Carol Hayes-Davis, interview by the author, October 4, 2012; Beacroft, Jefferson Davis.
9. Sinclair, Southern Belle, 54.
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