Author : Irish University Press
Publisher :
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 24,29 MB
Release : 1971
Category : British
ISBN : 9780716515166
CIVIL WAR The opening stages of the American Civil War caused considerable diplomatic uncertainty in the relationship between Great Britain and the United States. The suspension of the federal custom house at Charleston, South Carolina, and the future status of the British consul in that city, are typical of some of the relatively minor, but nonetheless significant, problems treated by the sessional papers. Of rather greater importance are papers devoted to the Federal blockade of Southern ports and to the activities of British nationals in both the Union and the Confederacy. V. 18 includes papers concerned with the closing stages of the Civil War and the occasional papers relating to claims arising from the conflict during the period 1865 to 1870, or until just before the Treaty of Washington. A lengthy paper is devoted to the Confederate raid launched from Canada into Vermont, and other papers deal with the assassination of Lincoln and the end of the war itself. Naval affairs are a continuing topic-the Alabama story is temporarily closed with its sinking at the hands of the Kearsage, and a long paper gives the saga of the Confederate raider Shenandoah. The final papers in the volume comprise a general picture of the claims between the two countries arising out of the Civil War. -- Publisher's catalogue.