 UDC activities and intervention into textbook content strongly shaped memory and public opinion about the Civil War.In 1904 Clay-Clopton published a memoir entitled, "A Belle in the Fifties," covering her life from girlhood through her confinement at Fort Monroe.It was one of three memoirs recommended by the UDC to its membership for serious study, together with those of Sara Agnes Rice Pryor and Louise Wigfall Wright.