CONTENTS. -- CHAPTER I -- An Introduction by Anecdote. -- The Old-fashioned Preface in a New Dress. -- CHAPTER II. -- Fortress Monroe. -- The Ceremonial of delivering Mr. Davis into Custody. -- His first Day in the Casemate. -- CHAPTER III. -- Placing Mr. Davis in Irons. -- His Protest and his Struggles. -- My First Visit to the Prisoner. -- CHAPTER IV. -- Conversation with Mr. Davis on many Points. -- The Removal of his Shackles demanded as a Medical Necessity. -- CHAPTER V. -- Conversations of some Interest. -- The Shackles Removed. -- Mr. Davis on Various Scientific Subjects. -- CHAPTER VI. -- Operations on the Southern Coast. -- Davis Hears that he is Indicted and to be Tried. -- His Joy. -- Views of his own Defence. -- CHAPTER VII. -- Mr. Davis on the New England Character. -- Future of the South and Southern Blacks. -- CHAPTER VIII. -- Mr. Davis on Cruelty to Prisoners. -- Mexico. -- Turtle on the Southern Coast. -- The Southern Leaders an Aristocracy. -- Lecture on the Fine Arts, by a Strange Man in a Strange Place. -- CHAPTER IX. -- Mr. Davis on Gen. Butler and Dutch Gap. -- He denies that Secession was Treason. -- His Opinion of Grant, McClellan, Pope, and other Union Officers -- also of Bragg, Lee and Pemberton. -- His Flight from Richmond and Arrest. -- CHAPTER X. -- Diseases of the Eye. -- Guards removed from the Prisoner 's Room. -- Mr. Davis takes his first Walk on the Ramparts. -- The Policy of Conciliation. -- Mr. Davis on Improvements in Land and Naval Warfare. -- CHAPTER XI. -- Mr. Lincoln 's Assassination. -- Ex-President Pierce. -- Torture of being Constantly Watched. -- Mr. Davis on the Members of his Cabinet and the Opponents of his Administration. -- Touching Tribute to the Memory of "Stonewall "Jackson. -- CHAPTER XII. -- Mr.Davis seriously Ill. -- Restrictions on Correspondence with his Wife. -- Clement C. Clay.

A Rampart Interview. -- Religious Phase of Mr. Davis 's Character. -- CHAPTER XIII -- Southern Migration to Mexico. -- Mr. Calhoun 's Memory vindicated from one Charge. -- Tribute to Albert Sidney Johnston. -- Failure of Southern Ironclads and Loss of the Mississippi. -- CHAPTER XIV. -- Mr. Davis on Negro Character. -- The Assassination of President Lincoln. -- How the Prisoner 's Food was Served. -- A Solemn and Interesting Statement. -- CHAPTER XV. -- Southern Non-Belligerents. -- The Ant-Lion and its Habits. -- Mr. Davis on the Future of the Southern Blacks. -- CHAPTER XVI. -- Mr. Davis on Fenianism. -- Highly Important. -- His Views of Reconstruction. -- CHAPTER XVII. -- Mr. Davis seriously Ill. -- Change of Quarters officially Recommended. -- The Pictures and Poetry of the Bible. -- Lafayette 's Imprisonment. -- Marvellous Memory and great Variety of Knowledge. -- Mr. Davis on Female Lecturers. -- The True Mission of Women. -- CHAPTER XVIII. -- Mr. Davis on Sensation News. -- The Condition of the Negro. -- Gen. Butler at Drury 's Bluff. -- Bishop Lynch and the Sisters of Charity. -- A Story after the manner of President Lincoln. -- CHAPTER XIX. -- Treason. -- State and National. -- The Fish- Hawk and Bald-Eagle. -- Mr. Davis on Senator Benton, Ex-President Buchanan, and President Andrew Johnson. -- Preparations to remove Mr. Davis to Carroll Hall. -- CHAPTER XX. -- Visit to Richmond. -- General Lee. -- Mr. Davis on Horseback Exercise. -- Macaulay 's Pictorial Power. -- CHAPTER XXI. -- Removal to Carroll Hall. -- Some Curious Coincidences. -- A Foolish Precaution. -- In-teresting Letter from Mrs.Davis. -- Adven- tures of the Family from Incarceration of Mr.Davis up to date. -- CHAPTER XXII. -- A New Regiment on Guard. -- Ordered not to Communicate with Mr.Davis, save on "Strictly Professional Matters.".

The Correspondence about Prisoner 's Overcoat. -- CHAPTER XXIII. -- General Summary in Conclusion. -- The Character of Mr. Davis. -- Let us be Merciful!.