Great Britain and the American Civil War eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 825 pages of information about Great Britain and the American Civil War.

Great Britain and the American Civil War eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 825 pages of information about Great Britain and the American Civil War.
  British order to stop
  departure, 119, 120 and note[2], 133;
  Russell’s private feelings as to, 121, 124;
  public opinion in Great Britain on, 129-130;
  Palmerston’s defence of Government action on, 134-5;
  American anger over, 119, 127;
  measures against, 121-3, 127;
  New York Chamber of Commerce protest on, 126;
  claim for damages on account of, 151 note[1];
  mentioned, i. 138; ii. 129 note[1], 131, 134, 136, 145, 146
Alexandra, case, The: 
  Seizure of the vessel, ii. 136, 139, 140, 152, 161 note[4];
    public approval, 136;
    law actions on, 136 note[2], 142, 149, 152, 185, 195;
    American anxiety at Court decision, 143;
    final result, 196 note[2]
America, Central:  British-American
  disputes in, i. 16, 17
American: 
  Civil War:  i. 86, 87 and note[2], 99;
    British public and official views at the commencement of, 40-60;
    origins of; American and British views, i. 47-8;
    efforts at compromise, 49;
    British official attitude on outbreak of, 73;
    European opinion of, after duration of three years, ii. 219;
    compared with the Great War in Europe, 219;
    British attitude to democracy as determining attitude to the War,
      i. 77; ii. 303-5;
    bearing of, on democracy in Great Britain, 299
  Union, The:  British views of, i. 15;
    prognostications of its dissolution, 36, 37
  War of Independence, i. 2-3, 17;
    adjustments after the Treaty of Peace, 3;
    as fostering militant patriotism, 7, 8 note;
    commercial relations after, 17-18
  “War of 1812” i. 4, 7, 18;
    causes leading to, 5-7;
    New England opposition to, 7, 18;
    effect of, on American National unity, 7
  See also under United States
Anderson, Major, Northern Commander at Fort Sumter, i. 117 Anderson’s Mission, ii. 53 note[3];
  reports, ii. 53 and note[2]
Andrews, Governor of Massachusetts, i. 219-20
Anthropological Society of London, ii. 222
Antietam, defeat of Lee by McClellan at, ii. 43, 85, 105;
  effect of, on Lord Palmerston, 43
Archibald, British Consul at New York, i. 63, 64
Argyll, Duke of, i. 179, 212;
  anti-slavery attitude of, i. 179, 238; ii. 112;
  views of, in Trent crisis, i. 212, 215, 229, 238;
  on calamity of war with America, 215, 238;
  on Northern determination, ii. 30
Arkansas joins Confederate States, i. 172
Army and Navy Gazette, The, ii. 228, 229;
  attitude in the conflict, 229-30, 236;
  on the Presidential election, 235-6, 238;
  summary of military situation after Atlanta, 243;
  on “foreign war” rumours, 251;
  cited or quoted, 68, 166, 232-3, 243.
  (See also under Russell, W.H.)
Arnold, Matthew, views on the secession, i. 47;
  on British “superiority,”
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