Queen of the Confederacy: The Innocent Deceits of Lucy Holcombe Pickens

Principal Characters

xiv Principal Characters Principal Characters Major Philemon Holcombe—Lucy’s paternal grandfather, Revolutionary War hero Lucy Maria Anderson Holcombe—Lucy’s paternal grandmother, blood relation to Marie Antoinette Beverly Lafayette Holcombe—Lucy’s father, youngest son of Major and Lucy Maria Holcombe Eugenia Dorothea Vaughn Hunt Holcombe—Lucy’s mother, wife of Beverly Holcombe John Hunt—Lucy’s maternal grandfather, father of Eugenia The children of Beverly and Eugenia Holcombe: Anna Eliza Lucy Petway Holcombe Pickens (non de plume H. M. Hardimann) John Theodore Hunt Martha Maria Edgeworth Philemon Eugene Helen, adopted Elkanah Bracken Greer—husband of Anna Eliza Beverly Holcombe Robertson—Lucy’s first cousin and ardent admirer Dr. William Henry Holcombe—Lucy’s cousin, of Louisiana Maria Hawley—governess to Holcombe children Mr. C. H. Alexander—friend, builder, and entrepreneur. Mr. S. H. Mathews—La Grange, Tennessee merchant and family friend “Uncle” Nat Willis—friend, of La Grange, Tennessee The Reverend Henry Shultz—Headmaster at the Moravian Female Academy St. George S. Lee—an early suitor of Lucy’s Reverend Staples—Presbyterian preacher, of Marshall, Texas xv Principal Characters Miss Arletta June—teacher and friend, of Marshall, Texas Mr. Dunlap—friend, of Marshall, Texas John Quitman—friend, Governor of Mississippi General Narciso Lopez—leader of filibuster expedition to Cuba Lieutenant William Logan Crittenden—member of expedition to Cuba and supposedly engaged to Lucy Laurent J. Sigur—financial backer of Bahia Honda filibuster expedition Ambrose Jose Gonzales—confidant and countryman of General Lopez Fleming Gardner—suitor and fiancée of Lucy, “Mr. Darbey” Mrs. Wilhelmina McCord—New Orleans editor Jemine—dressmaker who lived with the Holcombes at Wyalusing Mrs. Atha—friend, of Marshall, Texas Holcombe House Servants: Lucinda—Lucy’s personal maid Ned Hood—“Uncle Neelus” Aunt Viney Beatrice Honey Caroline Celah Charley—orphaned slave cared for by Holcombes Ernest Francis Wilkinson Pickens—Lucy Petway Holcombe’s husband, wealthy landowner, State Senator, U. S. Congressman, U. S. Minister to Russia, Governor of South Carolina Susan Lipscomb—daughter by Pickens’s first marriage Eliza—daughter by Pickens’s first marriage Maria Pickens Butler—Pickens’s daughter by first marriage Rebecca Pickens Bacon—Pickens’s daughter by first marriage Jeannie Pickens Whately—Pickens’s daughter by second marriage Francis Eugenia Olga Neva “Douschka” Pickens—Pickens’s daughter by Lucy (third marriage) xvi Principal Characters Mathew Galbraith Butler—husband of Maria Pickens John E. Bacon—husband of Rebecca Pickens Tsar Alexander II and Tsarina Maria Alexandrovna of Russia. James Buchanan, President of the United States—1856–1860 Duke de Osuna of Spain—Lucy’s admirer Clara Victoria Dargan MacLean—Lucy’s friend, writer Ellen Middleton—Lucy’s friend Floride Cunningham—Lucy’s friend Mary Boykin Chesnut—Civil War diarist and rival of Lucy Pickens House Servants: Tom Uncle Harper Aunt Mary Johnson Aunt Betty Wallace Aunt Charlotte Caroline Alfred Bess Q U E E N O F T H E C O N F E D E R A C Y ...