Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Foreshadowing the War—The True Position of Jefferson Davis
2. General Opinion in Europe of America and the Americans
3. Feeling of France at the Opening of the War
4. Pen Portraits of the Emperor, of His Cabinet, and of the Opposition
5. How Coming Events Cast their Shadows in England in 1861
6. The First Echoes from Montgomery
7. The Three First Commissioners—Messrs. Rost, Yancey and Mann
8. Judge Rost’s First Movements at Paris—Mr. Dayton—Cassius M. Clay
9. Mr. Gregory’s Motion for Recognition of the Southern Confederacy—The Scene and the Actors
10. Mr. Gregory’s Motion—SKetches of Leading English Statesment—Fall of the Curtain on the First Act
11. The Influence of the Battle of Bull’s Run, the Cotton Famine, and the Trent Case on Confederate Diplomacy Abroad
12. Inside of the Confederacy—Impressions of the Men and Things I Saw There—President Davis and His Cabinet
13. Mr. Yancey’s Return and Proposed Withdrawal of the Commissioners—My Counter Movement and Secret Mission to Europe—A Glimpse of Gen. Lee
14. My Interview with Lord Palmerston—His Public and Private Opinions of North and South
15. The Confederate Offer Made to the Emperor—How He Received It—A Month at Vichy
16. How Our Secret Negotiations Progressed—What Impeded and Finally Frustrated It
17. Press Work in Paris and the Provinces—Secret Service and Its Results—French Journalism
18. The English Press and Its Influence on Diplomacy—Its Leading War Correspondents in America—Henry Ward Beecher’s Testimony
19. The Mexican Intrigue in Its Early Stages—Confederate Connection with It—The Emperor’s Proposals for an Armistice and for Mediation
20. The Emperor’s Last Effort at Mediation—What We Hoped to Gain by It—Simultaneous Snubbing of France by Mr. Seward and Mr. Benjamin—French Intrigues in Texas
21. The Confederate Cotton Loan—Who Originated and Who Worked It—Its Influence on Confederate Credit and Diplomacy in Europe
Appendix 1: Three Letters from a South Carolinian, Relating to Secession, Slavery and the Trent Case, by Edwin De Leon
Appendix 2: “How We Broke the Blockade,” by Edwin De Leon
Appendix 3: The Truth about the Confederate States of America, by Edwin De Leon
Index