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ther daughter MARGARET DAVIS HAYES & A LIFE OUT OF THE LIMELIGHT
STORY BY KELLY R. HANCOCK & JOHN M. COSKI
PHOTOS FROM THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MUSEUM COLLECTION
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If you take a tour of the restored Confederate President’s House, you will learn much about President Jefferson Davis – and you will hear a lot about his endlessly fascinating wife,Varina Howell Davis, and about their youngest child,Varina Anne “Winnie” Davis, born in the White House bed chamber in 1864. But what about the Davis’s other daughter and eldest surviving child, Margaret “Maggie” Howell Davis?
