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16. Galton (ed.), Vacation Tourists, p. 401.

17. Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence Clough Buel (eds.), Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, 3 vols. (Secaucus, N.J., 1985), vol. 3, p. 150.

18. Ibid.

19. The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby, ed. Charles W. Russell (Boston, 1917), p. 175.

20. Jeffry D. Wert, Mosby’s Rangers (New York, 1990), p. 48.

21. Duke University, Malet family MSS, Malet to father, January 19, 1863.

22. Henry Vane, Affair of State (London, 2004), p. 62.

23. Devonshire MSS, Chatsworth, 2nd series (340.184), Hartington to 7th Duke, January 21, 1863.

24. University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Ga., mss 340, A. Trevor-Batyre, “A Noble Englishman, Being Chapters in the Life of Henry Wemyss Feilden,” p. 6.

25. Their romanticized portrayal of the Confederacy inspired fiction writers to develop the theme. In 1862 the pulp writer William Stephens Hayward began his series about Captain George, a dashing English adventurer who travels to the South to fight for its cause. The popularity of the series prompted a host of imitations, all based in the South.

26. The Charleston Chamber of Commerce and the Society of St. George both held farewell dinners for Mr. Bunch.

27. South Carolina Historical Society, Feilden-Smythe MSS, Feilden to aunt, March 4, 1863.

28. Ibid.

Chapter 18: Faltering Steps of a Counterrevolution

1. Illustrated London News, May 16, 1863. Vizetelly sometimes shocked his Confederate friends by his casual attitude toward strict accuracy. See G. Moxley Sorrel, Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer (Lincoln, Nebr., 1999), p. 205.

2. Francis Galton (ed.), Vacation Tourists, 1862–1863 (London, 1864), p. 399.

3. Robert N. Rosen, Confederate Charleston (Columbia, SC, 1994), p. 99.

4. South Carolina Historical Society, Feilden-Smythe MSS, Feilden to Phil, April 16, 1863. Illustrated London News, May 16, 1863.

5. Diary of Gideon Welles, 3 vols. (Boston, 1911), vol. 1, p. 276, April 20, 1863.

6. Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals (New York, 2005), p. 511. Albert E. H. Johnson, “Reminiscences of the Hon. Edwin M. Stanton,” Records of the Columbia Historical Society (1910), p. 80.

7. NARA, T.168, roll 31, vol. 31, doc. 3, Morse to Seward, January 3, 1863.

8. Russell was pleased by his success but annoyed with his publishers. They had cut out 186 pages, he told the U.S. consul in Paris, John Bigelow. The book accurately reflected his feelings, except “I must own I felt more hurt than I can or cared well to say at being refused leave to go with McClellan, as I was most anxious to show it was not my fault that Bull Run No. 1 ended with a panic.… I believe in my heart, however, that I do not entertain the smallest unkindly feeling towards a single citizen of the United States.” John Bigelow, Retrospections of an Active Life, Part I, 1817–1863, 5 vols. (New York, 1909), vol. 1, pp. 605–6, Russell to Bigelow, February 25, 1863.

9. Sarah Agnes Wallace and Frances Elma Gillespie (eds.), The Journal of Benjamin Moran, 2 vols. (Chicago, 1948, 1949), vol. 2, p. 1106, January 14, 1863.

10. Ibid., p. 1110, January 21, 1863.

11. NARA, T. 168, roll 31, vol. 31, doc. 3, Morse to Seward, January 3, 1863.

12. Illustrated London News, February 7, 1863.

13. Philip Van Doren Stern, When the Guns Roared: World Aspects of the American Civil War (New York, 1965), p. 177.

14. Wallace and Gillespie (eds.), The Journal of Benjamin Moran, vol. 2, p. 1108, January 16, 1863.

15. Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, ed. Ernest Samuels (repr. Boston, 1973), pp. 142–43.

16. Wallace and Gillespie (eds.), The Journal of Benjamin Moran, vol. 2, p. 1121, February 14, 1863.

17. Outraged by the plight of two British subjects imprisoned for alleged desertion, the British consul in Philadelphia sent an unofficial protest to the State Department. William Seward thought that the letter had to be an exaggeration, at least he hoped so, but he was sufficiently disturbed to write to the secretary of war, Edwin Stanton: “The granite walls of the dungeons