"First Lady" Mrs. Julia Gardiner Tyler

           After the death of her husband, Former President John Tyler, while he was serving as a Confederate legislator, she managed to get their Virginia plantation's cotton crop on a blockade runner and then sold it for a high price in the Bahamas. She went to live with her mother on Staten Island, New York, where she was active withe the pro-Confederate Copperheads. When her Tidewater, Virginia home, "Sherwood" was overrun and wrecked by Union soldiers, she wrote to President Lincoln begging him to protect her property, but to no avail...