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Title: A belle of the fifties; memoirs of Mrs. Clay of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Clay-Clopton, Virginia, 1825-1915 Sterling, Ada, d. 1939
Subjects: Washington (D.C.) -- Social life and customs United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives Confederate side
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, Page & Company
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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to accept his standard as that whichwould best help me worthily to represent our beloved State.Mr. Clay left a character here which stands greatly to thecredit of the State, and will be quoted long after we havepassed away, in proof of the character of the people he soworthily represented. His name and public history in theSenate are a cause of pride to our people. Your sincere friend, John T. Morgan. And one who had been our intimate friend for morethan thirty years. Bishop Henry C. Lay, wrote of mydear one thus: How gentle and kind he was ! How fond of youngthings, and how tender to the weak and helpless ! Espe-cially was he a singularly devoted husband, giving youhis admiration and his confidence. . . . Life seemedvery full of promise to him in those days. It was a sadchange when the storm arose, with its exile, imprison-ment, disappointed hopes, retirement into seclusion andinaction! Truly your life, with its opposite poles inWashington and Alabama, has been a varied one ! The End
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m Q ^ \A CDH INDEX AcKLiN, Miss Corinne, 97, 117.Adams, J. Q., 62.Aiken, Frederick A., 309, 320.Alabama, University of, 17.Aldrich, Reverend Mr., 241.Apothleohola, 108-10.Arrington, Anne, 3.Arrington, General William, 3.Ashley, Lord, 117.Astor, John Jacob, 42.Ayr, Colonel, 307. Baggioli, Signor, 97.Baker, General, 279-80.Bannister, Reverend J. M., 183.Barrow, Commodore, 174.Barry, Mrs. Captain du, 222.Bass, Mrs. (of Mississippi), 72.Battle, Alfred, 6-7.Battle, Mrs. Alfred, 6-11.Battle, William, 7.Bayard, Thomas F., 92, 117-18.Bayard, The Misses, 78.Baylor, Eugene, 132.Beauregard, General G. T., 188-9, 368.Benjamin, Judah P., 238-42.Bennett, James Gordon, 118.Benning, General, 205.Benton, Thomas Hart, 42, 77, 80, 150.Bertinatti, The Chevalier, 38, 40, 71—2.Bickley, Captain R. W., 298.Bierne, Miss Bettie, 36.Big Spring, 162.Birmingham, Alabama 17.Bishop, Mme. Anna, 104.Black, Judge Jeremiah S., 300, 309-10, 314, 329, 362,370,376.Blair, Montgomery, 152.Blakeman, Captain, 332-33.Blind T

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