Early days, 1833-1848
Navigation school, the apprentice, 1850-1856
United States Coast Survey, 1856-1860
A romantic interlude, 1857
Transition, 1860
The blockade is declared, 1860-1861
Wildcatter, blockade running under sail, 1860-1862
First gunfire: the alert, October 1861
The Confederacy confronts the blockade: the business of blockade-running, 1861-1862
Running through the blockade for Trenholm and Company, 1861-1862
The Memphis Affair, July 31-August 1, 1862
Trial of the Memphis, August-September, 1862
Recriminations and fall out, 1862
Fort LaFayette: Anglo-American diplomatic exchanges and James Carlin's struggle for release, August-December 1862
Still a captive, late 1862
Diplomatic power play, Christmas 1862-January 1863
James stakes his claim, January-July 1863
Resumption of trade: the intrepid Carlin, January-May 1863
The "commodore" of the South Carolina I & E Company: "knights of the sea," June-July 1863
Charleston under siege, 1863
The CSS Torch incident: drama and treachery, August 1863
Trouble in Bermuda: or how not to run the blockade, September-November 1863
Preparing for change, December 1863
Appointment in Scotland, December 1863-1864
Liverpool and the last days of the Confederacy, March 1864-June 1865
The last of the cotton, April-May 1865
Financial matters, 1864-1866
Life in England, June 1865-1871
Charleston and Florida ventures, 1865-1869
The steamer Salvador and the Cuban revolution, 1869
The Cuban run, May 1869
The Cuban shore, May-June, 1869
The Queen v. Salvador and British Foreign Enlistment Act 59, Geo. III 1819 c.69. May 1869
Caribbean repercussions: the governor tenders his resignation, 1869-1878
What happened next, 1870-1891.