Bonnie Blue Flag

About the Book

In 1864, Winnie Davis, youngest daughter of Jefferson Davis, was born in the Confederate White House in Richmond, Virginia. Her life encompassed a nomadic childhood, an education in a boarding school in Germany, the traumatic death of her father, and culminated in an ill-fated engagement to the grandson of a leading Abolitionist. Winnie was intelligent and independent, a world traveler and the author of two novels. Finally Winnie realized that the events of The War Between the States exerted complete control over her destiny. Like the Bonnie Blue Flag, she passed into history as another symbol of the Lost Cause.

About the Author

Mary Bedder was born in Queens, New York. More than thirty years ago, she and her husband moved to a bucolic community nestled in the heart of the Ramapo Mountains in northern New Jersey. While her four children attended school, Mary earned her undergraduate degree from Ramapo College of New Jersey. In 2002, she graduated from Drew University in Madison, New Jersey with a Master of Letters degree. After spending many yeas in the field of corporate compensation, she decided to work primarily with children and is currently employed in education. Her free time is spent writing plays.