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285:, a port under Union control. By 23 March 1865 Boozer and her family had made their way to Philadelphia, where they reunited with Amelia's relatives and were celebrated by the public, press, and military as Civil War heroines. They soon moved on to Manhattan, where Amelia had investments and more relatives. They were celebrated as Union heroines there as well, with recommendations from important generals, so the Union League Club gave them $ 10,000 to help them get settled. The senate voted compensation to Amelia for her Columbia losses, but the bill was set aside, along with many similar bills, but they were later compensated. More than thirty Union officers had signed a supporting statement attesting to the women's courage. 31: 581:, released in 1959, was a best-seller. Coker relied mostly on the spurious Julian Selby pamphlet, "A Checkered Life," reprinted as "The Countess Pourtales. Ethel Battle, daughter of Marie's half-sister Ethland, contacted Graydon and Coker over the negative portrayal of Marie and her mother, Amelia. Battle shared letters from and about Marie that showed the truth about her, and also educated the two authors about Amelia. Both novelists expressed regret that their hurtful portrayal of Marie and Amelia had been distorted by limited source materials. 362:"Marie was absolutely not with Kilpatrick during his embarrassing skedaddle or anywhere else during her trip north from Columbia." In fact, the entire Kilpatrick myth is completely destroyed in Deborah C. Pollack's book, Bad Scarlett: The Extraordinary Life of the Notorious Southern Beauty Marie Boozer (Peppertree Press, 2017), and her actual journey north with Gen. Howard's troops is fully described as well. 417: 547:.) It was a mixture of a few half-truths and countless total fabrications. Selby felt Amelia and Boozer were disloyal to Columbia and did not meet the standards of "southern womanhood". Selby resented Amelia getting compensation for lost property in Columbia while the ruined Columbia struggled without help. 474: 486:, so Marie, Arthur, and young Maria traveled by train to San Francisco and sailed across the Pacific. During 1877, Arthur took a leave of absence, so the three of them could travel in Asia. They visited other exotic places as well. By early 1878 they arrived in Naples and did sightseeing en route to the 269:
himself ordered that a better carriage be confiscated for Amelia's use, knowing the rigors of travel on the bad roads. Sherman's army marched about 10 miles each day which was physically demanding for everyone. The Confederates were attacking intermittently on the sides of the column and made a stand
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Beecher, who was unfaithful to Marie, introduced her to Lloyd Phoenix. Phoenix was handsome, wealthy, socially-connected and a yachtsman. He was a philanderer and falsely promised several times to marry Marie as soon as she divorced Beecher. Marie believed Phoenix and entered into a love affair with
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as Sherman's army marched north from Columbia. A rebel scout saw what he thought was a beautiful young woman fitting the description of Boozer (her name was never given explicitly) at Kilpatrick's camp. The dawn raid caught the Federals unaware and Kilpatrick barely escaped, wearing only his "shirt
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Amelia knew that she would no longer be safe in Columbia when the Union left to continue north. She sent two of her children to stay with her husband's parents in Feasterville and resolved to take Marie, her half-sister Ethland, and Ethland's African American nurse Lizzie north with the Union army.
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Before the Civil War, debate in South Carolina between Accommodationists and Secessionists was acceptable. Once the war started, Unionists like Amelia were increasingly unpopular. Boozer supported the Confederacy in the early years of the war, tending the Confederate wounded at Wayside Hospital and
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Amelia returned to Columbia with her child. She was the subject of gossip and worked as a seamstress, so for that and other reasons, she could not join in Columbia's highest social circles. She married Jacob Feaster in 1852. They had three children and the third half-sister Ethland was important in
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A page in Marie Beecher's Paris Police file, photo used without permission from Deborah C. Pollack, Bad Scarlett: The Extraordinary Life of the Notorious Southern Beauty Marie Boozer (Peppertree Press, 2017), page 133. Photograph owned by the Préfecture de Police, Paris, France, from their secret
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There was a jail in town and a prison called Camp Sorghum west of Columbia for Union officers who were prisoners-of-war. Some of these prisoners were moved to the grounds of the Lunatic Asylum. Amelia went to all those places to help the prisoners who lived in wretched conditions and Boozer, as a
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In 1837, 18-year old Amelia's first marriage was out of pity for a gravely-ill Thomas Harned on his deathbed, who died the next day. She met an older South Carolina businessman Peter Burton, who was visiting Philadelphia, and married him in 1840. They returned to Columbia, where Burton died of a
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Marie fully expected that Phoenix would marry her but he laughed at her and said he had no intention of doing so, following a frequent pattern in his life. On 31 October 1873, the spurned Marie took revenge on Phoenix in a remarkable way. All of the parties involved worked to keep it out of the
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Amelia arranged a 1866 marriage between Marie and an older businessman, John S. Beecher. This gave Marie entrée to wealth and the higher social circles in New York, but she did not love Beecher and considered him a "pleasant old man." She gave birth to a son, John Preston, in 1867; Naming him
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Marie, Countess de Portales-Gorgier (the former Marie Boozer) in 1886, photo used without permission from Deborah C. Pollack, Bad Scarlett: The Extraordinary Life of the Notorious Southern Beauty Marie Boozer (Peppertree Press, 2017), page 190. Photograph owned by Wilson-Battle-Connell-Park
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As the Union Army approached Columbia, the Confederates started to move the Union Officer POWs away from Camp Sorgham. Some officers escaped, planning to hide until the Union Army arrived; Amelia and Marie hid them in their cellar and provided them with meals until relief arrived for them.
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Marie Boozer, Countess de Pourtales-Gorgier, ca. 1876, Wilson-Battle-Connell-Park papers. Reproduced with the permission of Deborah C. Pollack from the cover of her book, Bad Scarlett: The Extraordinary Life of the Notorious Southern Beauty Marie Boozer, published by Peppertree Press in
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Arthur's next assignment was in Washington, D.C. and the couple immediately sailed for New York. Beecher, Marie's first husband, gave Marie permission to marry again. Arthur and Marie married for a second time in Baltimore on 2 May 1876, to be sure that the marriage was legally valid.
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Sometime in 1873 or possibly January 1874, Marie and her sister Ethland traveled to St. Petersburg in Russia. They associated with aristocrats and had their photographs taken by a celebrity photographer. Claims that Marie was involved in a Russian diamond theft were simply false.
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Marie moved to Paris, where sophisticated Europeans socialized with her despite her reputation. Her apartment became a meeting place for artists, royalty and writers. Her rebellious and lavish lifestyle as well as connection with the Paris demimonde resulted in police attention.
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Amelia moved to nearby Newberry and married David Boozer in September 1847. David had the child's name changed to Mary Sarah Amelia Boozer in November 1848. In February 1850, David killed himself while Amelia was at church, leaving a substantial estate of $ 10,000 to $ 15,000.
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Marie Boozer's mother Amelia Feaster in oil painting. Photo used without permission from Deborah C. Pollack, Bad Scarlett: The Extraordinary Life of the Notorious Southern Beauty Marie Boozer (Peppertree Press, 2017), page 49. Painting and photograph property of a private
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had to retract the whole story, saying that Marie was alive and well with Arthur in Switzerland. Other ridiculous stories had Marie married to the Ottoman Sultan or becoming a Zulu in Africa. These newspaper attacks continued through Marie's entire marriage to Arthur.
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for one term in New York, where her mother had relatives. This elite school put heavy emphasis on French conversational skills. Boozer studied in Paris during 1863-1864 and, because she loved the French culture, changed her name to Marie. She then returned to Columbia.
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Her 2nd husband Arthur Count de Pourtales. Photo used without permission from Deborah C. Pollack, Bad Scarlett: The Extraordinary Life of the Notorious Southern Beauty Marie Boozer, page 138 (Peppertree Press, 2017). Photograph owned by Wilson-Battle-Connell-Park
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Marie returned to New York in May, 1874 and the divorce was finalized in July 1874. Beecher got custody of John Preston and Marie got alimony. Marie was judged the adulterous party so, under New York law, she could not remarry until Beecher's death.
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Marie Boozer was from a very patriotic family. Her mother was born Amelia Sees in Philadelphia on 30 January 1819. Amelia's grandfather emigrated from France with his Huguenot family and fought as a lieutenant in a Philadelphia militia during the
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In admiration of his service, the French government decorated Arthur with the title of Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur, one of the highest honors in Europe. Marie's skill in the diplomatic social circuit was a major factor in Arthur's success.
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Preston's death precipitated the heartbroken Marie to join her mother completely in supporting the Union cause. The two women saved the lives of numerous officers from Philadelphia, New York, New Jersey, and New England. Union General
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In December 1873, Marie was staying with Ethland at a hotel in London, and the two sisters became innocently involved in a widely-publicized scandal, which drew more unwanted attention to Marie in New York and London newspapers.
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All agreed that the young Marie Boozer was an exceptional beauty with thick strawberry-blonde hair and deep blue eyes. The popular Southern historian Manly Wade Wellman later wrote that she was the basis for the character of
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Marie had been caring for her younger half-sister Ethland, but in 1874 Ethland joined her father Jacob Feaster and two older siblings in pioneer LaGrange, Florida. Ethland maintained correspondence with Marie.
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and secretary to Francois-Jules Harmand, the plenipotentiary French minister to Japan. In August 1898, the couple sailed from New York to Le Havre. From there they took a train to Paris and were entering
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By 1956, a highly respected book on the Carolina campaign transforms the older female schoolteacher into "a lovely young woman in nightdress". It concludes "In all probability, it was the beautiful Mary
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seizure sometime in 1846, leaving Amelia several months pregnant. Mary Amelia Peter Burton was probably born in December 1846. The 1850 census gave her age as three and the 1860 census gave thirteen.
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life in Paris behind her and was a faithful world-traveling diplomatic wife for the next thirty years. Her formal name was now Marie Adele de Beauvoir Boozier, Countess de Pourtales-Gorgier.
352:... According to Capt. James H. Miller of the 5th Ohio Cavalry, Kilpatrick's traveling companion was named Alice. She was said to be a Northern schoolteacher whom "Little Kil" was escorting." 604:
Marie, Countess de Pourtales-Gorgier, received the last rites of the Catholic Church and died on 25 January 1908. The location of the burial on January 31 was not disclosed to the public.
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in 1860, where all grades had access to French language instruction. Boozer still had considerable wealth inherited from David Boozer and during the Civil War she attended the
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newspapers, but the full account is explained in detail by Deborah C. Pollack in her book, Bad Scarlett: The Extraordinary Life of the Notorious Southern Beauty Marie Boozer.
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on 8 March 1865, General Sherman, who acknowledged Amelia and her "beautiful" daughters in his later memoir, directed General Howard to put the four women on a steamship to
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The 1848 and 1850 birthdates for Boozer in some sources were clearly incorrect, considering the 1848 name change by David Boozer and the consistent early census data.
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After traveling the world and helping Arthur with diplomatic duties, Marie lived out her last years with her husband at the twenty-five room Villa Terrarosa in
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and Marie Boozer romanced on the trip north from Columbia has spread to numerous "memoirs, novels, encyclopedias, and many nonfiction historical narratives."
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reported that Marie had been strangled with a bowstring in Japan for an indiscretion, when she hadn't even been there yet. Two days later, the
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dutiful daughter, joined her work. While doing so, Boozer fell into a deep but chaste romance with a young prisoner, Naval Lieutenant and hero
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when Boozer was seriously injured, described in detail in Bad Scarlett: The Extraordinary Life of the Notorious Southern Beauty Marie Boozer.
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volcano exploded during their stay. Marie described her travels and appreciation for international cultures in several letters to Ethland.
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A coach-maker named Phineas Frazier had also helped the Union POWs. He was whipped, imprisoned and had his head forcibly shaved.
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A church hearing cleared Amelia of accusations that she drove Boozer to suicide or was having an affair with Dr. Hugh Toland.
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Boozer's half-sister, Ethland, had a successful marriage to Dr. Benjamin Rush Wilson, a prominent doctor in pioneer Florida.
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By 1880, Arthur was promoted to "first class of his diplomatic service" for his achievements. By 1882 they were in
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Marie Boozer's life. The Feaster family was doing well financially and Jacob Feaster loved young Marie Boozer.
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and drawers". The rebel attackers spotted the woman, but they discovered the "fair damsel" was an "old, ugly
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From 1894 to 1898, Arthur, Marie, and Maria were in Tokyo, where they were beloved, and where he was
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Hoaxes occurred frequently in newspapers during the 1870s to the 1890s. On 27 October 1884, the
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described how his cavalry planned a dawn raid on the camp of his rival, Union cavalry officer
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Arthur, Marie, and Maria took a break from Tokyo in 1895 by visiting France and the U.S.
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Arthur's deceased first wife was Jenny Holladay, daughter of the transportation tycoon
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Bad Scarlett: The Extraordinary Life of the Notorious Southern Beauty Marie Boozer
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Boozer's mother Amelia passed away in 1870, leaving Marie without her guidance.
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Arthur and Marie married in a London church on 4 November 1875. Marie put her
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One Union officer claimed that Amelia's compensation request was excessive.
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It is unclear when Marie met a French diplomat of Swiss origin named Count
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Since 2000, some historians have pushed back against the widespread story.
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by Nell S. Graydon was released in 1958. Elizabeth Boatwright Coker's
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was an early enemy of Marie and Amelia with his specious 1878 booklet
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Snowden, Yates; Bennett, John C.; Anderson, Mary Crow (1993).
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Marie Adele de Beauvoir Boozier, Countess de Pourtales-Gorgier
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him. Beecher found out and commenced divorce proceedings.
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Two 'historical' novels were written about Marie Boozer.
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Early attacks came from the hostile reporters of the
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Tuscany
Arthur de Pourtalès
antebellum
Union
high society
American Revolution
Benjamin Franklin
War of 1812

Scarlett O'Hara
Columbia Female College
Academy of Sacred Heart
Samuel W. Preston
Abraham Lincoln
Fort Fisher
William Tecumseh Sherman
Columbia
campaign of the Carolinas
General Howard
Bentonville
Fayetteville
Wilmington
Kilpatrick
Wade Hampton
Hugh Judson Kilpatrick
Battle of Monroe's Crossroads
The Countess Pourtales
Samuel W. Preston

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