De Leon, Edwin. Secret History of Confederate Diplomacy Abroad. Edited by William C. Davis. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005.

Lincoln’s election, sailed for Europe, 1 Egypt, cotton, 1-2 Jefferson Davis, letters, 2-7 General opinion in Europe, European hostility toward the North, England, France, Europeans did not understand sectional differences, image of Yankee, French revolutionaries sympathetic to the North, 7-13 French opinion at beginning of the war, Thouvenel, Seward, Dayton, Thomas Butler King, ineffective Confederate diplomats, ineffective amateurs, scum, some from New Orleans wrote to French newspapers, Prince Camille de Polignac, 14-21 Biographical sketches, Emperor Napoleon III, Duc de Morny, Empress Eugenie, Thouvenel, Prince Napoleon, French opposition factions, 22-30 No one reads American newspapers in Europe, get their information through Times of London, but very inconsistent course, on Buchanan and Lincoln, Frémont, Kearny, 32-39 Montgomery, Judah Benjamin, boating, Leroy P. Walker, Hurlbut report to New York Times, Toombs, delusions abut north not fighting, that cotton was king, slavery as cornerstone, moderates proved to be the true prophets and their voices never reached Europe, 40-47 Confederate commissioners, Rost, Yancey, Mann, Slidell, Lord Russell, 48-54 Judge Rost at Paris, William L. Dayton, French opinion, Charles Francis Adams, Cassius Clay, 55-60 Gregory, member of Parliament motion for Confederate recognition, Cobden and Bright opposed, blockade, Mann, 61-65 Gregory resolution on Confederate recognition, nature of Parliament, decorum, Earl Derby, Disraeli, Gladstone, Bright, 66-76 Bull Run, 77-78 Cotton famine, Bright, Russell, distress in Lancashire, 78-79 Trent affair, French, Winfield Scott, Seward, 79-87 Richmond, Jefferson Davis, Louis Wigfall, Robert Toombs, Alexander Stephens, Judah Benjamin, Robert M. T. Hunter, Yancey, Mason, 91-98 Yancey return, possible withdrawal of the commissioners, European antislavery sentiment, Hotze, plan to infiltrate European press, possible French intervention, 100-6 Robert E. Lee, 106-7 Seward, Confederate secret service, 108-9 Interview with Palmerston, Mason, Slidell, Gladstone, John Russell, 110-21 Confederate offer to Napoleon III, Slidell, 122-29 Mason, demand for English recognition, 125-39 Secret negotiations, Vichy, English opinion, French, 130-34 Newspaper work, Paris and provinces, social relations with Paris editors, his work with the French press, 135-43 English press and diplomacy, little success working with English newspapers, Henry Ward Beecher, American correspondents for the London Press, Russell, Mackay, Sala, 144-50 French in Mexico, Confederate connections, Napoleon III armistice proposal, mediation, Slidell, 151-60

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Napoleon III’s last mediation effort, Seward, Judah Benjamin, French intrigues in Texas, Mr. Dayton, 161-66 Confederate cotton loan, diplomacy in Europe, subscribers, Slidell, 167-85 Secession and France, 188-89 Cassius Clay, slavery, rebellion, conspiracy, subjugation, southern divisions, 189-93 Trent affair, honor, 193-97 Breaking the blockade, Havana, reached home, 199-208 Truth about the Confederacy, blockade, travel to Richmond, overconfident and Union gains, New Orleans, Butler, hatred of Yankees, weakness of northern economy, Union naval strength, southern arms and ammunition, denies shortages of food, denies that slavery is a weakness, slave loyalty, confiscation, 209-19

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