A World on Fire_ Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War - Amanda Foreman [11]
Peter Sinclair—Social reformer; author of Freedom or Slavery in the United States: Being Fact and Testimonies for the Consideration of the British People, 1863.
Goldwin Smith (1823–1910)—British Canadian historian and journalist; Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford University, 1858–66.
Harriet Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland (1806–68)—Granddaughter of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire; a champion of the American antislavery movement.
Pro-Southern Supporters
Mary Sophia Hill (1819–1902)—Sister of Sam Hill, 6th Louisiana Volunteers; regimental nurse in the 6th Louisiana Volunteers; Federal prisoner of war, 1864.
Thomas Kershaw—British peace campaigner on behalf of the South.
James Spence (1816–1905)—Author of The American Union, 1862; Liverpool businessman; pro-Southern propagandist and lobbyist.
Francis William Tremlett (1821–1913)—Vicar of St. Peter’s Church, Belsize Park; unofficial chaplain to the Confederate navy in England.
Edward Montagu Stuart Granville Montagu-Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, 3rd Baron Wharncliffe (1827–99)—President of the Manchester Southern Independence Association.
The War at Sea
Sir William Nathan Wrighte Hewett (1834–88)—Commander of HMS Rinaldo, 1861–62, and HMS Basilisk, 1865–69; commander of the ill-fated Condor, 1864.
The Hon. Augustus Charles Hobart-Hampden (1822–86)—Under the pseudonym “Captain Roberts” commanded the blockade runners Don and Falcon during the Civil War.
Sir Alexander Milne, 1st Baronet (1806–96)—Royal Navy commander-in-chief, North America and West Indies, 1860–64; First Naval Lord, 1866–68 and 1872–76.
Thomas Taylor (1841–?)—Supercargo on the blockade runners Banshee, Will o’ the Wisp, Wild Dayrell, Stormy Petrel, and Wild Rover; author of Running the Blockade, 1896.
Volunteers
Bennet Graham Burley [also spelled Burleigh] (c. 1844–1914) CONFEDERATE—Scottish volunteer, Confederate navy; Federal prisoner of war, 1864; went on to become a notable war correspondent.
Charles Culverwell (1837–1919) UNION—Actor (stage name: Charles Wyndham); brigade surgeon in the Union army, 1862–64.
Leonard Douglas Hay Currie (1832–1907) UNION—Assistant adjutant general to Brigadier General W. F. Smith; colonel in the 133rd New York Volunteer Infantry.
Francis Warrington Dawson [né Austin John Reeks] (1840–89) CONFEDERATE— Common sailor, CSS Nashville, 1861; master’s mate, CSS Louisiana, 1862; 1st lieutenant of artillery in the “Purcell Artillery” battalion, under the command of Captain William “Willy” Johnson Pegram.
John Fitzroy De Courcy, 31st Baron Kingsale (1821–90) UNION—Stipendiary magistrate of San Juan Island; colonel of the 16th Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Frederick Farr (1844–64) UNION—Private, Company F, 7th Maine Infantry, 1863–64.
Henry Wemyss Feilden (1838–1921) CONFEDERATE—Private, 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of the Foot (also known as the Black Watch), 1857–60; assistant adjutant general in Charleston, Confederate army.
George St. Leger Grenfell (1808–68) CONFEDERATE—Assistant inspector general of the corps of cavalry of the Army of Tennessee, 1862; assistant inspector general of the corps of cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia, 1863.
George Henry Herbert UNION—Lieutenant, 9th New York Volunteer Infantry (“Hawkins’s Zouaves”).
Henry George Hore (d. 1887) UNION—Aide-de-camp to Major General John Sedgwick.
James Horrocks UNION—Private, 5th Battery, New Jersey Volunteers.
Robert Moffat Livingstone (1846–64) UNION—3rd New Hampshire Infantry; son of the explorer Dr. David Livingstone.
Henry Ronald Douglas MacIver (1841–1907) CONFEDERATE—Lieutenant, variously as aide to Generals “Stonewall” Jackson, Jeb Stuart, and Edmund Kirby-Smith.
Charles Mayo (1837–77) UNION—Staff surgeon-major and medical inspector of the XIII Army Corps.
Robert Neve (1831–79) UNION—5th Kentucky Volunteers.
James Pendlebury (1841–97) UNION—Private, 69th New York Infantry.
Alfred Rubery