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A Belle of the Fifties

by Virginia Clay-Clopton

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

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