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Varina Anne was the second daughter and sixth child born to Jefferson and Varina Davis. “Little Pie Cake,” as she was called for the first year of her life, entered the world in June, 1864, as the Confederate States of America was beginning its demise. Her birth was only six weeks after a freakish accident: her five-year-old brother fell to his death from a third story balcony at their home in Richmond.

Winnie Davis’ First Years

Only months later and nursing, the still-unnamed baby made a long and often harrowing flight south as the Confederate capital was crumbling. By the time she was finally named, Varina Anne (for her mother), and forever nicknamed “Winnie” (again, her mother’s nickname), her older siblings had been sent to Canada, in the care of Grandma Howell, and her father was sent to Fortress Monroe, where he was chained and imprisoned.

Jefferson Davis, in his late fifties, was old enough to be her grandfather. Blind in one eye, and always frail in health, the strain of the past four years had aged him even more. Varina-the-mother, forty and formidable, embarked on a campaign of her own: to unchain the non-violent ex-Confederate President, and allow him more humane treatment. Eventually Varina and baby Winnie were permitted to join Davis in his casement prison. They stayed there for nearly two years.

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