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Queen of the Confederacy : the innocent deceits of Lucy Holcombe Pickens

Lucy Holcombe Pickens was not content to live the life of a 19th-century Southern belle. Wife of Francis Wilkinson Pickens, the governor of South Carolina on the eve of Civil war, Lucy was determined to make her mark on the world. This work offers an initmate portrait of the great lady.
Print Book, English, ©2002
University of North Texas Press, Denton [Tex.], ©2002