A Belle of the Fifties
- Subtitle
- 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
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1. Front matter2. PREFACE3. CHAPTER I Childhood, Girlhood, Marriage4. CHAPTER II Washington Personages in the Fifties5. CHAPTER III A Historic Congressional “Mess”6. CHAPTER IV The Cabinet Circles of the Pierce and Buchanan Administrations7. CHAPTER V Solons of the Capital8. CHAPTER VI Fashions of the Fifties9. CHAPTER VII The Relaxations of Congressional Folk10. CHAPTER VIII The Brilliant Buchanan Administration11. CHAPTER IX A Celebrated Social Event12. CHAPTER X Exodus of Southern Society from the Federal City13. CHAPTER XI War Is Proclaimed14. CHAPTER XII Richmond as a National Capital15. CHAPTER XIII Glimpses of Our Beleaguered South Land16. CHAPTER XIV Refugee Days in Georgia17. CHAPTER XV C. C. Clay, Jr., Departs for Canada18. CHAPTER XVI The Departed Glories of the South Land19. CHAPTER XVII Conditions in 1863–’420. CHAPTER XVIII The Death of Abraham Lincoln21. CHAPTER XIX C. C. Clay, Jr., Surrenders to General Wilson22. CHAPTER XX Prisoners of the United States23. CHAPTER XXI Return from Fortress Monroe24. CHAPTER XXII Reconstruction Days Begin25. CHAPTER XXIII News from Fortress Monroe26. CHAPTER XXIV Again in Washington27. CHAPTER XXV Secretary Stanton Denies Responsibility28. CHAPTER XXVI Mr. Holt Reports Upon the Case of C. C. Clay, Jr.29. CHAPTER XXVII President Johnson Interposes30. CHAPTER XXVIII The Nation’s Prisoners31. CHAPTER XXIX President Johnson Hears What the “People Say”32. CHAPTER XXX The Government Yields Its Prisoner33. INDEX