Identifier: belleoffiftiesme00clay (find matches)
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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nklin Pierce, President of the United States, i853-57 • 60 Mrs. William L. Marcy, of New York . . .62Mrs. J. J. Crittenden, of Kentucky . . .84Mrs. Chestnut, of South Carolina . . .94 Jenny Lind 102 James Buchanan, President of the United States, i857-6i 108 Miss Harriet Lane, mistress of the White House, i857-6i . . 114 Lady Napier and Her Sons . . . .116 Mrs. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi . . . 134Lord Lyons, British Ambassador to the United States ........ 140 Clement C. Clay, Jr., United States Senator, i853-6i 148 L. Q. C. Lamar, 1862 164 Mrs. Philip Phillips, of Washington, D. C. . . 166Senator James H. Hammond, of South Carolina . 212 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS—Co;z/mw^c? Facing Page General Joseph Wheeler, of Alabama . . 232 Dr. Henry C. Vogell, Fortress Monroe, 1866 . 334 Dr. George Cooper, Fortress Monroe, 1866 . . 350Mrs. a. S. Parker, of Washington, D. C. . . 368Jefferson Davis and Clement C. Clay, Jr. (after release from Fortress Monroe) . . . .374 A BELLE OF THE FIFTIES
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Published bv E. Antlionv. 501 Broadway. X. Y.,from photojrapliic negative Irom Bradys National Portrait liallery, 1852-1859 PRESIDENT JEFFERSON DAVIS A BELLE OF THE FIFTIES CHAPTER IChildhood, Girlhood, Marriage MY infant days were spent in North Carolinaamong the kinsmen of my mother. I do notremember her, save that she was young andfair, being but twenty when she died. She w^as thetwenty-fifth child of the family united under her fathersroof, which remarkable circumstance may be explainedas follows: My grandfather. General William Arrington, who wonhis title in the Revolutionary War, having been left awidower with twelve children, wearying of his solitude,mounted his horse and rode over to visit the comelywidow Battle, whose children also numbered twelve.The two plantations lay near together in the old TarHeel State. My gallant ancestor was a successfulwooer, and Mrs. Battle, nee WilHams, soon became Mrs.Arrington. Thus it happened that the Httle Anne—mymother—the one daughter o

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