ABSTRACT

Octavia Walton Le Vert, who had known privilege and fame all her life, came to know also a great deal of poverty after the war but still led a campaign to preserve Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington. LeVert was inducted into Alabamas Women Hall of Fame in 1990, listed as Mobiles Most Famous Belle of the 19th Century. Augusta Jane Evans Wilson herself was inducted 13 years earlier and listed as an author and a Civil War Nurse. Perhaps more importantly to postwar Mobilians is that LeVert was not buried in Mobiles prestigious Magnolia Cemetery, where Evans would be buried, even though her husband and two daughters were laid to rest there. Despair, disruption, displacement, disorientation, dissipation are all characteristics of Evans Speckled Bird. Evans herself was inducted 13 years earlier and listed as an author and a Civil War Nurse.