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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
PREFACE
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
CHAPTER I Childhood, Girlhood, Marriage
CHAPTER II Washington Personages in the Fifties
CHAPTER III A Historic Congressional “Mess”
CHAPTER IV The Cabinet Circles of the Pierce and Buchanan Administrations
CHAPTER V Solons of the Capital
CHAPTER VI Fashions of the Fifties
CHAPTER VII The Relaxations of Congressional Folk
CHAPTER VIII The Brilliant Buchanan Administration
CHAPTER IX A Celebrated Social Event
CHAPTER X Exodus of Southern Society from the Federal City
CHAPTER XI War Is Proclaimed
CHAPTER XII Richmond as a National Capital
CHAPTER XIII Glimpses of Our Beleaguered South Land
CHAPTER XIV Refugee Days in Georgia
CHAPTER XV C. C. Clay, Jr., Departs for Canada
CHAPTER XVI The Departed Glories of the South Land
CHAPTER XVII Conditions in 1863–’4
CHAPTER XVIII The Death of Abraham Lincoln
CHAPTER XIX C. C. Clay, Jr., Surrenders to General Wilson
CHAPTER XX Prisoners of the United States
CHAPTER XXI Return from Fortress Monroe
CHAPTER XXII Reconstruction Days Begin
CHAPTER XXIII News from Fortress Monroe
CHAPTER XXIV Again in Washington
CHAPTER XXV Secretary Stanton Denies Responsibility
CHAPTER XXVI Mr. Holt Reports Upon the Case of C. C. Clay, Jr.
CHAPTER XXVII President Johnson Interposes
CHAPTER XXVIII The Nation’s Prisoners
CHAPTER XXIX President Johnson Hears What the “People Say”
CHAPTER XXX The Government Yields Its Prisoner
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