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63. Philip Guedalla, Gladstone and Palmerston, Being the Correspondence of Lord Palmerston and Mr. Gladstone, 1851–1865 (London, 1928), pp. 230–31.
64. ORN, ser. 2, vol. 3, pp. 505–58, Hotze to Benjamin, August 6, 1862.
65. George Douglas, Eighth Duke of Argyll (1823–1900): Autobiography and Memoirs, ed. the Dowager Duchess of Argyll, 2 vols. (London, 1906), vol. 2, p. 193, Argyll to Gladstone, September 2, 1862.
66. David F. Krein, The Last Palmerston Government (Ames, Iowa, 1978), p. 65.
67. Jenkins, Britain and the War for the Union, vol. 2, p. 112.
68. Krein, The Last Palmerston Government, p. 66.
69. New York Times, August 13, 1862.
70. T. C. Pease and J. Randall (eds.), The Diary of Orville H. Browning, 1850–1881 (Springfield, Ill., 1925–31), p. 562, July 24, 1862.
71. Charles P. Cullop, “An Unequal Duel: Union Recruiting in Ireland, 1863–1864,” Civil War History, 13 (1967), p. 104.
72. Adams, Great Britain and the American Civil War, vol. 2, p. 34, fn.
73. Letters of Lord St. Maur and Lord Edward St. Maur, p. 250, n.d.
74. David H. Donald, Lincoln (New York, 1995), p. 366.
75. “The Journal of Robert Neve,” private collection, p. 53.
76. Robert L. Kincaid, The Wilderness Road (Middlesboro, Ky., 1966), p. 246.
77. Brian Holden Reid, Robert E. Lee (London, 2005), p. 106.
78. John B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary at the Confederate States Capital, ed. Earl Schenck Miers (Urbana, Ill., 1958), pp. 95–96, 27, August 28, 1862.
79. Ford (ed.), A Cycle of Adams Letters, vol. 1, p. 177, Charles Francis Adams, Jr., to Adams, August 27, 1862.
80. Edward G. Longacre, Jersey Cavaliers (Hightstown, N.J., 1992), p. 100.
81. Captain W. D. L’Estrange, Under Fourteen Flags: The Remarkable True Story of a Victorian Soldier of Fortune (Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire, 1999), p. 80.
82. George Templeton Strong, Diary of the Civil War, 1860–1865, ed. Allan Nevins (New York, 1962), p. 252, September 4, 1862.
Chapter 13: Is Blood Thicker Than Water?
1. Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, ed. Ernest Samuels (repr. Boston, 1975), p. 128.
2. Sarah Agnes Wallace and Frances Elma Gillespie (eds.), The Journal of Benjamin Moran, 1857–1865, 2 vols. (Chicago, 1948, 1949), vol. 2, p. 1068, September 9, 1862.
3. Ibid., p. 1058, August 22, 1862.
4. Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, p. 129.
5. On September 2, the British ambassador in Paris, Lord Cowley, had heard that opinion in the cabinet was tilting “in favor of mediation in America,” and that if the emperor were to announce publicly what he was saying in private to the Confederates, England would probably go along with him. David F. Krein, The Last Palmerston Government (Ames, Iowa, 1978), p. 66.
6. MPUS, p. 184, Charles Francis Adams to William Henry Seward, September 4, 1862.
7. ORN, ser. 2, vol. 3, p. 524, Ambrose Dudley Mann to Judah P. Benjamin, September 5, 1862.
8. Sir Spencer Walpole, Life of Lord John Russell, 2 vols. (New York, 1968), vol. 2, p. 349, Russell to Palmerston, September 17, 1862.
9. ORN, ser. 2, vol. 3, pp. 535–36, Hotze to Benjamin, September 26, 1862.
10. Ibid., pp. 546–48, Slidell to Benjamin, September 29, 1862.
11. The Confederates in Europe were helped by recent reports in the European press that showed Lincoln in a poor light as far as abolition was concerned. One referred to Lincoln’s meeting on August 14 with a delegation of freedmen. The president had been frank about his fears for them, saying it would be best for everyone if the black population emigrated somewhere else, perhaps Central America. David H. Donald points out that, despite the message, the fact of the meeting was momentous—African Americans had always been barred from the White House. Donald, Lincoln (New York, 1995), p. 368.
12. In London, William Gregory naively asked the Southern commissioners whether the Confederacy could not devise an education program