Richmond, Virginia: burning of, 20–21; as conservative city, 4; evacuation of, 17–20; social life in, 3; as spiritual center of aristocracy and rebellion, 16; war in and surrounding, 1, 7, 14; Winnie Davis’s funeral held in, 157, 158–59
Riis, Jacob August, 144
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (Davis), 70–71
Robbins, Gaston, 79
Robinson, Anna Magee, 29
A Romance of Summer Seas (Davis), 148–49, 151, 155
Romanticism, 73, 81
Ross, Ishbel, 67, 81, 124
Rowland, Eron Opha Moore, 15, 131
royalty, Confederate, Winnie Davis as, 85–86
sacrifice. see self-sacrifice
Sartoris, Nellie, 145
Scott, Anne Firor, 32
Scott, Sir Walter, 73
self-sacrifice: broken engagement as, 132–34, 140; Davis legacy of, 27, 46–47; of Robert Emmet, 88
Semmes, Ioranthe, 136, 138
Silber, Nina, 25, 26
Sinclair, Upton, 140
Sinnott, Emma, 134–35
slaves, emancipation and integration of, 36
Smith, Gerrit, 92, 93
soldiers, Confederate. see veterans, Confederate
spinsterhood, fear of, 133
Stamps, Lucinda Davis, 45
Stone, Cornelia Branch, 72
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 161–63
Stuart, Flora, 13–14
Stuart, James Ewell Brown “J.E.B.,” 12–13
Stuart, J.E.B. “Jimmy” 11, 13–14
Stuart, Virginia Pelham, 13–14
stubbornness of Winnie Davis, 45, 48, 54
style, 67, 91, 136, 159
Sunday World, 143
superiority, of Southerners, 71, 139–40
superstition. see dream(s)
Syracuse, New York, 90–94
Taylor, Sarah Knox “Knoxie,” 10, 29, 31, 97
Taylor, Zachary, 29, 32, 33, 97
Thomas, Augustus, 100
Tindall, Retta D., 22, 33
“treasure train,” 22
Trenholm, George, 18
Tuttle, R. M., 43, 141
Twain, Mark, 73, 86
United Confederate Veterans (ucv), 72–76
United Daughters of the Confederacy (udc), 77–78, 161, 164
United States Military Academy at West Point, 28–29
The Veiled Doctor (Davis), 148
Vesuvius, Mount, 115, 116
veterans, Confederate: admiration of, for Winnie Davis, 79–80; deal with, as Daughter of the Confederacy, 140; following defeat in Civil War, 72–74; myths of, 74–75; reunions of, 147–48, 152–53
Victoria, Princess, 48
Victorian customs, 95, 109, 148–49, 150
Virginia Military Academy (VMI), 57–58
Walthall, William T., 59
Warner, Charles Dudley, 86–87, 142, 155
Warren, Robert Penn, 157
Washington DC, 32–33
Weisiger, Oscar F., 20–21
West Point GA, 74
White, Mertie Broughton, 68–69
White, Verner, 68–70
White House of the Confederacy. see Executive Mansion
Wiggins, Sarah Wollfolk, 41
Wilhelm I, 49
Wilkinson, Alfred Jr. (“Fred”): on broken engagement, 130; death of, 163; finances of, 124–26; and fire at Harp-erly Hall, 121–24; marriage proposal of, 96–100; portrayal of, in Queen of a Mystic Court, 139; possibility of physical relationship with, 110–11; reputation and background of, 92–93; responsibilities of, 119; rumors regarding, 131; threats against, 120–21; visits Winnie Davis in Europe, 107–12; Winnie Davis breaks off engagement with, 126–28; Winnie Davis’s courtship with, 93–96; Winnie Davis’s relationship with, 114–17, 147. see also engagement to Alfred Wilkinson
Wilkinson, Alfred Sr., 98–99
Wilkinson, Charlotte, 99, 121–22
Wilkinson, Harry, 122, 123
Wilkinson, Katharine May, 121–22, 126, 128
will: of Sarah Dorsey, 51, 52, 143; of Winnie Davis, 150
Williamson, Joel, 70, 73
Winchester, George, 30–31
women: ideals for, 16; liberation of, 149–50; protection of, 72–73; representative, at ucv reunions, 75–76; in Victorian family structure, 149; Winnie Davis as rallying figure for southern, 77
women’s clothing, rumor of Jefferson Davis wearing, 24–26
women’s memorial groups, 77–78
Wyatt-Brown, Bertram, 35–36
yellow fever, 58–59
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