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Queen of the Confederacy: The Innocent Deceits of Lucy Holcombe Pickens Hardcover - 2002

by Lewis, Elizabeth Wittenmyer


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"Submissiveness is not my role, but certain platitudes on certain occasions are among the innocent deceits of the sex." A strong character with a fervent belief in woman's changing place, Lucy Holcombe Pickens (1832-1899) was not content to live the life of a typical nineteenth-century Southern belle. Wife of Francis Wilkinson Pickens, the secessionist governor of South Carolina on the eve of the Civil War, Lucy was determined to make her mark in the world. She married "the right man," feeling that "a woman with wealth or prestige garnered from her husband's position could attain great power." Lucy urged Pickens to accept a diplomatic mission to the court of Tsar Alexander II of Russia, and in St. Petersburg Lucy captivated the Tsar and his retinue with her beauty and charm. Upon returning to the states, she became First Lady of South Carolina just in time to encourage a Confederate unit named in her honor (The Holcombe Legion) off to war. The only woman to have her image engraved on Confederacy paper currency. Heralded as the uncrowned "Queen of the Confederacy."

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  • Title Queen of the Confederacy: The Innocent Deceits of Lucy Holcombe Pickens
  • Author Lewis, Elizabeth Wittenmyer
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 229 x 152mm 288 pages 25 b&w
  • Publisher University of North Texas Press, Denton, Texas, U.S.A.
  • Date 2002-05
  • ISBN 9781574411461

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ELIZABETH WITTENMYER LEWIS, born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, attended Susquehanna University and Pennsylvania State College. She graduated from Jefferson Medical School with an RN and served as first lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps in World War II. She married a Southerner and spent most of her life in Virginia, Florida, Missouri, and Texas, with the exception of six years in London. She continued her education at Rice University in Houston.
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