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Introduction

Prologue: "A Born Gentleman to the Tips of His Fingers"

PART I. The South's Secessionist Sister City

Chapter 1. "Decayed Is Here"

Chapter 2. "A Traffic in Enslaved Africans"

Chapter 3. "A Great Distribution Point for Cotton"

Chapter 4. "Money Is Plenty, Business Is Brisk"

Chapter 5. "The Meetings of These Madmen"

Chapter 6. "The City of New York Belongs to the South"

Chapter 7. "That Which Comes Easy Goes Easy"

PART II. The South Seethes

Chapter 8. "How Sad Is This Life"

Chapter 9. "A Fire in the Rear Will Be Opened"

Chapter 10. "State Governments Will Be Seized"

Chapter 11. "The People Have Lost All Confidence in Lincoln"

PART III. The Plan

Chapter 12. "Organize Only in ‘the Territory of the Enemy'"

Chapter 13. "New York Is Worth Twenty Richmonds"

Chapter 14. "Set Fire to Cities on Election Day"

Chapter 15. "Rebel Agents in Canada"

PART IV. Burn New York

Chapter 16. "Something Dead in That Valise"

Chapter 17. "Do the Greatest Damage in the Business District"

Chapter 18. "It Blazed Up Instantly"

Chapter 19. "A Vast and Fiendish Plot"

PART V. The Aftermath

Chapter 20. "If Convicted, They Will Be Executed"

Chapter 21. "Trust to Luck"

Chapter 22. "A Terror for Our Citizens"

Chapter 23. "They Sacrificed Everything"

Epilogue: What Happened to the Principal Characters

Acknowledgments

Source Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index