Virginia Clay-Clopton

Virginia Clay-Clopton (1825–1915) was an American memoirist and political hostess in Alabama and Washington, DC. She was also known as Virginia Tunstall, Virginia Clay, and Mrs. Clement Claiborne Clay. She was one of a number of Southern women whose memoirs published at the turn of the 20th century became part of the public discourse about the war; her book was recommended by the United Daughters of the Confederacy to its membership.