Blue and Gray Diplomacy: A History of Union and Confederate Foreign Relations

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments xiii Prologue 1 chapter 1 Republic in Peril 9 chapter 2 British Neutrality on Trial 47 chapter 3 The Trent and Confederate Independence 83 chapter 4 Road to Recognition 113 chapter 5 Union and Confederacy at Bay 145 chapter 6 The Paradox of Intervention 181 chapter 7 Antietam and Emancipation 215 chapter 8 Union-Confederate Crisis over Intervention 253 chapter 9 Requiem for Napoleon—and Intervention 285 Epilogue 321 Notes 325 Historiographical Note 375 Bibliography 377 Index 401 Illustrations First Confederate cabinet 19 William H. Seward 21 Richard B. Lyons 23 Lord John Russell 26 Charles Francis Adams 30 Lord Palmerston 34 Napoleon III 73 Austrian Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian 78 James M. Mason 85 John Slidell 86 Captain Charles Wilkes 87 HMS Trent and USS San Jacinto 90 Judah P. Benjamin 116 First reading of the Emancipation Proclamation 184 CSS Alabama sunk by USS Kearsarge 201 Edouard de Stoeckl 206 President Abraham Lincoln and General George B. McClellan at Antietam, Maryland 222 President Abraham Lincoln plays the emancipation card (cartoon) 235 William E. Gladstone 237 George Cornewall Lewis 242 Union and Emancipation meeting 279 ...