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.Undercurrentsof jealousy percolated between them, which their mother tried tosmooth over.As can sometimes happen in families with two children,Maggie became her father s favorite, and Winnie, her mother s; theparents typically lauded Maggie for her good looks and Winnie for245 the girdled treeher brains.Maggie learned how to run a household, Winnie did not.As Varina liked to boast, Maggie was a fine mother to her four chil-dren, and the Hayes grandchildren gave her great pleasure.After Ad-dison began to have health problems, however, the Hayes familymoved to Colorado Springs in the mid-1880s, leaving Winnie in pos-session of her parents, as it were.The primal bond between Winnieand her mother grew stronger.In 1886 Varina told her, You are all Ihave, and the Ladies Home Journal later quoted her as calling Winniethe best and dearest of daughters. Winnie said that her mother al-ways understood her, and she thought the Beauvoir household couldnot function without her mother.2Winnie became a public figure in her own right, which was per-haps inevitable for Jefferson Davis s youngest child.Southern whiteswere curious about her, and Winnie started traveling with her fatheron speaking engagements.A tour they made in 1886 through theDeep South brought her fully into the spotlight.They went to Mont-gomery at the mayor s invitation so Jefferson could dedicate a Con-federate monument, and cheering crowds greeted the train along theway.When the party arrived on April 27, several thousand peoplewere waiting as cannons boomed, a band played, and fireworks ex-ploded.At the hotel, they met more hurrahs from another surgingcrowd.The next day Winnie sat beside her father as he made hisspeech, and together they placed a Confederate battle flag in the cor-nerstone.The crowd s enthusiasm beggared description, but it wasonly the beginning.3As Jefferson Davis proceeded on his tour with his daughter, thecrowds grew larger and more delirious.White Southerners seemedto realize that he might not live much longer, and this could be thelast chance to see him.The Davis train was festooned with buntingcarrying the unsubtle slogan He Was Manacled for Us, and inLaGrange, Georgia, residents scattered petals before their carriage.In Atlanta the governor and former Confederate general John B.Gordon introduced Winnie to a roaring crowd as the daughter ofthe Confederacy. Jefferson Davis repeated the title in Macon, Geor-gia, when he introduced her to another cheering audience.In Savan-246 the girdled treenah, where Jefferson arrived to speak to the local artillery company,another throng filled the streets.Henry Grady, usually a tough-mindedjournalist, proclaimed that everyone fell in love with Winnie Davis,and he asked for her photograph for the Atlanta Constitution.On theway home Jefferson made an extemporaneous speech at a railroadstation, proclaiming that he was sorry for only one thing, that theSouth lost the war.For father and daughter, it was a perfervid, ex-citing, and exhausting trip.They staggered back to Beauvoir, he sickwith bronchitis and she with the measles, and Varina nursed both ofthem back to health.4Winnie Davis was now famous, and white Southerners began writ-ing to ask for her autograph and her photograph.She was invitedto join a host of honorary societies, including one named for herand founded for the intellectual and social improvement of youngwomen in Eufaula, Alabama.Dozens of white Southerners namedtheir daughters after her, and she wrote thank-you letters to the par-ents and kept a list of the girls addresses.People started traveling toBeauvoir to meet her, rather than her father, and when she visitedRichmond in 1887 the ex-Confederate elites in the capital embracedher, as they had not embraced her mother, and the following year theLadies Confederate Memorial Association invited her to join.At agetwenty-four she was listed in an encyclopedia called Prominent Menand Women of the Day.Soon she was appearing at events all over the re-gion, entirely at ease in the public eye.John Gordon s sobriquetstuck, and whites all over the region hailed her as the Daughter ofthe Confederacy [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.Undercurrentsof jealousy percolated between them, which their mother tried tosmooth over.As can sometimes happen in families with two children,Maggie became her father s favorite, and Winnie, her mother s; theparents typically lauded Maggie for her good looks and Winnie for245 the girdled treeher brains.Maggie learned how to run a household, Winnie did not.As Varina liked to boast, Maggie was a fine mother to her four chil-dren, and the Hayes grandchildren gave her great pleasure.After Ad-dison began to have health problems, however, the Hayes familymoved to Colorado Springs in the mid-1880s, leaving Winnie in pos-session of her parents, as it were.The primal bond between Winnieand her mother grew stronger.In 1886 Varina told her, You are all Ihave, and the Ladies Home Journal later quoted her as calling Winniethe best and dearest of daughters. Winnie said that her mother al-ways understood her, and she thought the Beauvoir household couldnot function without her mother.2Winnie became a public figure in her own right, which was per-haps inevitable for Jefferson Davis s youngest child.Southern whiteswere curious about her, and Winnie started traveling with her fatheron speaking engagements.A tour they made in 1886 through theDeep South brought her fully into the spotlight.They went to Mont-gomery at the mayor s invitation so Jefferson could dedicate a Con-federate monument, and cheering crowds greeted the train along theway.When the party arrived on April 27, several thousand peoplewere waiting as cannons boomed, a band played, and fireworks ex-ploded.At the hotel, they met more hurrahs from another surgingcrowd.The next day Winnie sat beside her father as he made hisspeech, and together they placed a Confederate battle flag in the cor-nerstone.The crowd s enthusiasm beggared description, but it wasonly the beginning.3As Jefferson Davis proceeded on his tour with his daughter, thecrowds grew larger and more delirious.White Southerners seemedto realize that he might not live much longer, and this could be thelast chance to see him.The Davis train was festooned with buntingcarrying the unsubtle slogan He Was Manacled for Us, and inLaGrange, Georgia, residents scattered petals before their carriage.In Atlanta the governor and former Confederate general John B.Gordon introduced Winnie to a roaring crowd as the daughter ofthe Confederacy. Jefferson Davis repeated the title in Macon, Geor-gia, when he introduced her to another cheering audience.In Savan-246 the girdled treenah, where Jefferson arrived to speak to the local artillery company,another throng filled the streets.Henry Grady, usually a tough-mindedjournalist, proclaimed that everyone fell in love with Winnie Davis,and he asked for her photograph for the Atlanta Constitution.On theway home Jefferson made an extemporaneous speech at a railroadstation, proclaiming that he was sorry for only one thing, that theSouth lost the war.For father and daughter, it was a perfervid, ex-citing, and exhausting trip.They staggered back to Beauvoir, he sickwith bronchitis and she with the measles, and Varina nursed both ofthem back to health.4Winnie Davis was now famous, and white Southerners began writ-ing to ask for her autograph and her photograph.She was invitedto join a host of honorary societies, including one named for herand founded for the intellectual and social improvement of youngwomen in Eufaula, Alabama.Dozens of white Southerners namedtheir daughters after her, and she wrote thank-you letters to the par-ents and kept a list of the girls addresses.People started traveling toBeauvoir to meet her, rather than her father, and when she visitedRichmond in 1887 the ex-Confederate elites in the capital embracedher, as they had not embraced her mother, and the following year theLadies Confederate Memorial Association invited her to join.At agetwenty-four she was listed in an encyclopedia called Prominent Menand Women of the Day.Soon she was appearing at events all over the re-gion, entirely at ease in the public eye.John Gordon s sobriquetstuck, and whites all over the region hailed her as the Daughter ofthe Confederacy [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]