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Christmas wishes from Leila’s old school

Parthenia Leila Ellis, the novel’s Union-sympathizing Confederate widow, hailed from Alabama where her family’s plantation, The Cedars, was near the former-state capital of Cahawba. In 1864, Cahawba still had a Female Academy from which Leila had graduated along with other young daughters … Continue reading

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