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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, 1853-1866. Put into narrative form by Ada Sterling Virginia Clay-Clopton · History_-_American · 37 章
目录 The Project Gutenberg eBook of A Belle of the Fifties 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 INDEX THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE