- PREFACE.
- CHAPTER I. BACKGROUNDS
- CHAPTER II. FIRST KNOWLEDGE OF IMPENDING CONFLICT, 1860-61.
- CHAPTER III. THE DEVELOPMENT OF A POLICY, MAY, 1861
- CHAPTER IV. BRITISH SUSPICION OF SEWARD
- CHAPTER V. THE DECLARATION OF PARIS NEGOTIATION
- CHAPTER VI. BULL RUN; CONSUL BUNCH; COTTON AND MERCIER
- CHAPTER VII. THE "TRENT"
- CHAPTER VIII. THE BLOCKADE
- CHAPTER IX. ENTER MR. LINDSAY
- CHAPTER X. KING COTTON
- CHAPTER XI. RUSSELL'S MEDIATION PLAN
- CHAPTER XII. THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
- CHAPTER XIII. THE LAIRD RAMS
- CHAPTER XIV. ROEBUCK'S MOTION
- CHAPTER XV. THE SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE ASSOCIATION
- CHAPTER XVI. BRITISH CONFIDENCE IN THE SOUTH
- CHAPTER XVII. THE END OF THE WAR
- CHAPTER XVIII. THE KEY-NOTE OF BRITISH ATTITUDE