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In Civil War Columbia, South Carolina, no women were more gossiped about than Amelia Feaster and her teenage daughter, Marie Boozer. The Philadelphia-born Feaster, a widow thrice before her thirty-first birthday, aided the Union war effort from her home, at the same time as Marie changed into infamous for her beauty and vanity. For over a century, scandalous tales of these women have been published around the nation, linking them to wealthy and powerful men both at home and in a foreign country. Historian Tom Elmore sorts throughout the many myths and legends–involving things like adultery, decapitation and the Russian tsar’s jewels–about Feaster and Boozer to provide the primary fact-based biography of these two nineteenth-century tabloid queens.