A Belle of the Fifties, Memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama

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Author

Clay-Clopton, Virginia, 1825-1915

Title

A Belle of the Fifties Memoirs of Mrs. Clay of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-1866. Put into narrative form by Ada Sterling

Credits

Produced by Richard Tonsing, MWS, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)

Language

English

LoC Class

F206: United States local history: The South. South Atlantic States

Subject

Washington (D.C.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 60934

Release Date

December 16, 2019

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.A Belle of the Fifties Memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, covering Social and Political Life in Washington and the South, 1853–66 Put into narrative form by Ada Sterling
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
5. 5.CHAPTER I Childhood, Girlhood, Marriage
6. 6.CHAPTER II Washington Personages in the Fifties
7. 7.CHAPTER III A Historic Congressional “Mess”
8. 8.CHAPTER IV The Cabinet Circles of the Pierce and Buchanan Administrations
9. 9.CHAPTER V Solons of the Capital
10. 10.CHAPTER VI Fashions of the Fifties
11. 11.CHAPTER VII The Relaxations of Congressional Folk
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII The Brilliant Buchanan Administration
13. 13.CHAPTER IX A Celebrated Social Event
14. 14.CHAPTER X Exodus of Southern Society from the Federal City
15. 15.CHAPTER XI War Is Proclaimed
16. 16.CHAPTER XII Richmond as a National Capital
17. 17.CHAPTER XIII Glimpses of Our Beleaguered South Land
18. 18.CHAPTER XIV Refugee Days in Georgia
19. 19.CHAPTER XV C. C. Clay, Jr., Departs for Canada
20. 20.CHAPTER XVI The Departed Glories of the South Land
21. 21.CHAPTER XVII Conditions in 1863–’4
22. 22.CHAPTER XVIII The Death of Abraham Lincoln
23. 23.CHAPTER XIX C. C. Clay, Jr., Surrenders to General Wilson
24. 24.CHAPTER XX Prisoners of the United States
25. 25.CHAPTER XXI Return from Fortress Monroe
26. 26.CHAPTER XXII Reconstruction Days Begin
27. 27.CHAPTER XXIII News from Fortress Monroe
28. 28.CHAPTER XXIV Again in Washington
29. 29.CHAPTER XXV Secretary Stanton Denies Responsibility
30. 30.CHAPTER XXVI Mr. Holt Reports Upon the Case of C. C. Clay, Jr.
31. 31.CHAPTER XXVII President Johnson Interposes
32. 32.CHAPTER XXVIII The Nation’s Prisoners
33. 33.CHAPTER XXIX President Johnson Hears What the “People Say”
34. 34.CHAPTER XXX The Government Yields Its Prisoner
35. 35.INDEX

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