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.
issuing letters of marque, 126, 143;
      advised by Adams against issue of privateers, 131, 139
    Recognition of Southern Independence, i. 65, 74, 198
    Servile War threat, ii. 18-19, 22, 83, 95, 98
    Slave Trade Treaty with Great Britain, i. 10, 275, 276; ii. 90
    Southern privateering: 
      view of, i. 104, 105;
      efforts to influence European attitude to,
      i. 104, 150-1, 154, 162, 164, 169;
      attitude on issue of privateers from British ports, ii. 126, 127
    Trent affair: 
      reception of British demands in, i. 230, 232, 233;
      on Wilkes’ action, 231;
      attitude to release of envoys, 231 and note[2], 232, 233, 234, 236;
      British opinion on Seward in, 239
  Foreign Policy: 
    high tone, i. 236, 252 and note[1], 301;
    restoration of the Union as basis of, 236;
    influences affecting, ii. 95, 100
  Foreign war panacea, i. 60, 113, 120, 123-4, 125, 126 note[1],
  127, 130, 132, 134-5, 137, 154, 155, 214;
    appreciation of, 136. 
  Southern conciliation policy of, i. 49, 83, 117, 118, 120-1, 123, 125;
    expectations from Union sentiment in the South, 60, 117;
    aids Schieiden’s Richmond visit, 121-3;
    communications with Confederate Commissioners, 117-8, 120
  Appreciation and criticism of: 
    by British statesmen and press in 1865.... ii. 257;
    Times tribute to, 257;
    Horace Greeley’s attack on, i. 280 note[1];
    Gregory’s attack on, i. 269;
    Lyons’ view of, i. 59, 60;
    Adams’ admiration for i. 80, 127
  British suspicion of, i. 113, 114, 128, 133, 136, 227, 235-6;
    ii. 101 note[1];
    the Newcastle story, 80, 114, 216, 227;
    Thurlow Weeds’ efforts to remove, 227;
    Adams’ view, 227
  Otherwise mentioned,
    i. 66, 163 notes, 177, 186, 188, 209, 212, 213, 217;
    ii. 39, 84, 123 note[2], 170, 173, 175, 223, 225,
    245 note[1], 259, 281
Shelburne, Earl of, i. 240
Sheridan’s campaign in the Shenandoah, views in French press on,
  ii. 236 note[2]
Sherman, General: 
  Atlanta campaign of, ii. 217;
  captures Atlanta, 233;
  march to the sea, 243-5;
  captures Savannah, 245, 249, 300-1;
  campaign against Johnston, 248;
  reports of pillaging and burning by his army, 265;
    mentioned, 215
  Russell, W.H., views of, on Sherman’s campaigns, ii. 230, 232-3, 243
  Times view of his campaigns, ii. 212, 227, 232, 243-6
Shiloh, General Grant’s victory at, i. 278
Shipbuilding by Confederates in neutral ports, ii. 116, 117 note[1], 128;
  Continental opinion of international law on, 121 note[1]
Shipping Gazette, quoted, ii. 14
Shrewsbury, Earl of, cited on democracy in America and its failure, ii. 282
Slavery: 
  cotton supplies and, i. 13;
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