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34. Jenkins, “Frank Lawley and the Confederacy,” p. 148.
35. Julia Miele Rodas, “More Than a Civil (War) Friendship: Anthony Trollope and Frank Lawley,” Princeton University Library Chronicle, 60/1 (1998), p. 42, Lawley to mother, February 2, 1862.
36. Crawford (ed.), William Howard Russell’s Civil War, p. 230.
37. Alan Hankinson, Man of Wars: William Howard Russell of “The Times,” 1820–1907 (London, 1982), p. 180.
38. William Watson, Life in the Confederate Army: Being the Observations and Experiences of an Alien in the South During the Civil War (London, 1887; repr. Baton Rouge, La., 1995), p. 285.
39. Atkins, The Life of Sir William Howard Russell, vol. 2, p. 105, March 24, 1862.
40. Ilana Miller, Reports from America (Stroud, 2001), p. 212.
41. Crawford (ed.), William Howard Russell’s Civil War, p. 235, Russell to Stanton, April 2, 1862.
42. Allan Nevins, The War for the Union, 4 vols.; vol. 2: War Becomes Revolution, 1862–1863 (New York, 1960), p. 3.
43. William Howard Russell, My Diary North and South, ed. Eugene H. Berwanger (New York, 1988), p. 340.
44. Hankinson, Man of Wars, p. 181.
45. A. Taylor-Milne, “The Lyons-Seward Treaty of 1862,” American Historical Review, 38/3, pp. 511–25.
46. The small U.S. fleet known as the Africa squadron had been patrolling the west coast of Africa since 1860; the largest fleet was the British Preventive Squadron, which had six ships.
47. James J. Barnes and Patience P. Barnes, Private and Confidential: Letters from British Ministers in Washington to the Foreign Secretaries (Selinsgrove, Pa., 1993), p. 280. The source for the footnote on this page is the same.
48. University of Rochester, Fanny Seward Diary, ff. 21–29, March 22, 1862.
49. Dicey, Spectator of America, p. 58.
50. Lincoln had calculated that paying owners compensation for all the slaves in the Northern states would cost the equivalent of eighty-seven days of warfare.
51. The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz, ed. Carl Schurz, Frederic Bancroft, and William Archibald Dunning, 3 vols. (Garden City, N.Y., 1917), vol. 2, p. 304.
52. Taylor-Milne, “The Lyons-Seward Treaty of 1862.”
53. PRO 30/22/36, ff. 63–66, Lyons to Russell, April 8, 1862.
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1. Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr. (ed.), Sir Henry Morton Stanley, Confederate (Baton Rouge, La., 2000), p. 129.
2. Ibid., pp. 123, 124.
3. Ibid., p. 126. Eighteen-year-old Henry D. Parker survived but was discharged from the army on April 10.
4. Stanley P. Hirshon, The White Tecumseh (New York, 1997), p. 120.
5. Grant was in fact named Hiram Ulysses Grant, but a mistake in his application to West Point resulted in his being known as Ulysses S. Grant.
6. Peter Batty and Peter Parish, The Divided Union (London, 1987), p. 80.
7. Hughes (ed.), Sir Henry Morton Stanley, p. 136.
8. Edward Dicey, Spectator of America, ed. Herbert Mitgang (Athens, Ga., 1971), p. 208.
9. Dawson’s propensity for romantic flights of fancy helped him to survive his transition to life as a junior officer in the navy. There was nothing knightly about the first time he tried to climb into bed: “Like one of the heroes of my favorite Marryatt [sic], I signalized my entrance into the hammock on one side by pitching out on my head on the other side.” Francis W. Dawson, Reminiscences of Confederate Service, 1861–1865, ed. Bell I. Wiley (Baton Rouge, La., 1980), pp. 40–42.
10. Lord Lyons was annoyed by Mercier’s visit. It was his firm belief that they should respect the Northern embargo and refrain from any direct communication with the South. He also feared that it would give the impression of a crack in the Anglo-French accord. For that reason alone, Seward was not averse to Mercier’s solo mission.
11. Robert Douthat Meade, Judah P. Benjamin: Confederate Statesman (Baton Rouge, La., 2001), p. 254.
12. James J. Barnes and Patience P. Barnes (eds.), The American