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.
  usual historical treatment of the incident, 141, 147 and note[1]
Lamar, Confederate representative: 
  account of Roebuck and Bright, ii. 172 note[2]
Lancashire: 
  Cotton trade,
    distress in, ii. 6, 11 et seq., 21, 26, 29, 31, 240;
    attitude in, to Government policy, 10, 11, 13-15;
    attitude of the “Cotton Lords” to, 10, 16;
    Farnall report on, 12, 20;
    Northern sympathies of cotton operatives, 13, 285 note[1]
  Cotton factories, statistics, ii 6
  Cotton manufacturers, attack on in Commons, ii. 163-4
Lane, Franklin K., Letters of, cited ii. 129 note[1]
Layard, reply of,
  on Roebuck’s motion, ii. 171, 173;
  on destruction of British property in America, 265
Le Siecle, cited, ii. 174 note[3], 236 note[2]
Lee, General,
  turns back McClellan’s advance on Richmond, ii. 1;
  defeated at Antietam, 43, 85;
  retreat of, through Shenandoah valley, 43;
  advance in Pennsylvania,
  163 note[1], 164, 176;
  defeats Hooker at Chancellorsville, 164;
  retreat from Gettysburg, 163 note[1], 178, 179, 297;
  defence of Richmond, 185, 217, 247, 248;
  surrender, 248, 255, 256-7, 265, 301, 303
  Times, quoted or cited, on his campaign, ii. 227, 256, 296
Lees, Mr., ii, 220
Lempriere, Dr., i. 180; ii. 191
Lewis, Sir George Cornewall, i. 76, 78 and note, 94; ii. 52;
  views of, on the Civil War, ii. 50 and note[2], 51;
  article on “The Election of President Lincoln and its Consequences,”
    i. 78 note;
  fears war with America in Trent affair, 215, 226;
  objections of, to mediation, ii. 44-6;
  Hereford speech of, in reply to Gladstone, 50 and note[1], 51, 55, 58;
  view of the Emancipation Proclamation, 52;
  action of, on Russell’s proposed intervention, 52 et seq., 73-4;
  memorandum of, on British policy in opposition to Russell, 62-3;
  account of Cabinet discussion on Napoleon’s armistice suggestion, 63-5;
  Hereford speech, effect on Adams, ii. 55;
  Palmerston’s views on Lewis’ attitude to recognition, 56;
  Russell’s reply to Lewis, 56, 57
Liberator, The,
  Garrison’s abolition organ, i. 31, 33 and note[3];
  46 and note[1], 47;
  cited or quoted, 70 note[1]; ii. 106 note[2], 107,
  109 note[2]; III note[3], 130, 184 note[3],
  189 note[2], 191 note[2], 194, 223 and note[2],
  224 note[2], 237 note[1], 239 notes, 240
  note[2], 289
Liebknecht, W., ii. 301 note[3]
Lincoln, President, i. 115
  Characteristics of, i. 115, 119, 120, 127-8;
    influence of, in Britain, ii. 276
  Election and inauguration, i. 36, 38, 39, 48, 51, 64, 82, 110, 115;
  inaugural address, 38, 50, 71, 175;
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