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24. Ibid., p. 78.
25. Edge, An Englishman’s View of the Battle Between the Alabama and the Kearsarge, p. 28.
26. A week after Llewellyn’s death, the doctors and students at his alma mater, Charing Cross Medical School, voted to open a subscription fund in memory of his sacrifice. The public subscription was especially popular with doctors in the Indian Army. Enough money was raised to found the Llewellyn Scholarship Prize, and two memorials, one at Charing Cross Hospital and the other at his parish church, Easton, in Wiltshire. The marble plaque at Charing Cross paid tribute to Llewellyn’s bravery and sacrifice under fire: IN MEMORY OF DAVID HERBERT LLEWELLYN, FORMERLY A STUDENT OF THIS HOSPITAL AND AFTERWARDS SURGEON TO THE CONFEDERATE STATES WAR STEAMER ALABAMA. AFTER HER ACTION WITH THE FEDERAL STEAMER “KEARSARGE” OFF CHERBOURG, THOUGH ENTREATED BY THE WOUNDED TO JOIN THEM IN THEIR BOAT, HE REFUSED TO PERIL THEIR SAFETY BY SO DOING, AND WENT DOWN WITH THE SINKING VESSEL, ON 19TH JUNE 1864 IN THE 26TH YEAR OF HIS AGE. THIS TABLET HAS BEEN ERECTED AND A SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDED IN HIS NAME BY HIS FELLOW STUDENTS, AND OTHERS IN ENGLAND AND INDIA TO COMMEMORATE HIS SELF-SACRIFICING COURAGE AND DEVOTION.
27. NARA, M.T-185, roll 8, vol. 8, U.S. Consuls in Bristol, Consul Eastman to Seward, June 23, 1864.
28. Somerset RO, Somerset MSS, d/RA/A/2a/40/10, Palmerston to Somerset, June 21, 1864.
29. W. C. Ford (ed.), A Cycle of Adams Letters: 1861–1865, 2 vols. (Boston, 1920), vol. 2, p. 158, Henry Adams to Charles Francis Adams, Jr., June 24, 1864.
30. See Beth Archer Brombert, Édouard Manet (Chicago, 1997), pp. 159–60, for the reasons why, contrary to popular belief, Manet did not witness the battle. The quotation in the footnote on this page is from W. S. Hoole, Confederate Foreign Agent: The European Diary of Edward C. Anderson (Tuscaloosa, Ala., 1976), July 17, 1864.
31. Brian Jenkins, Britain and the War for the Union, 2 vols. (Montreal, 1974, 1980), vol. 2, p. 333.
32. A week later, one of the Phaeton’s lieutenants was kidnapped and crimped while on shore leave. Consul Bernal eventually rescued him from trench duty outside Baltimore.
33. New-York Historical Society, Narrative of Ebenezer Wells (c. 1881), June 9, 1864.
34. OR, ser. 1, vol. 36/4, soc. 64, p. 138, Canby to Major General A. J. Smith.
35. Thomas E. Pemberton, Sir Charles Wyndham: A Biography (London, 1904), p. 21.
36. James G. Hollandsworth, Jr., Pretense of Glory (Baton Rouge, La., 1998), p. 211.
37. Edward Lyulph Stanley, 4th Baron Stanley of Alderley, letters from America, Royal Commonwealth Society Library, Cambridge, Stanley to Blanche, May 21, 1864.
38. Ibid., Stanley to Kate, June 9, 1864. When Stanley visited General Banks at his office on June 3, the general showed no embarrassment over his recent demotion, though he admitted his frustration with the slow pace of change for former slaves. His main source of pride was the number of negroes entering the army. The Louisiana Native Guards who fought at Port Hudson had been the first black regiment officially mustered into the army. Since then another thirty black regiments had been formed, with at least 18,000 black recruits, and more were coming.
39. Ibid., Stanley to Blanche, May 12, 1864.
40. Mary Sophia Hill, A British Subject’s Recollections of the Confederacy (Baltimore, 1875), p. 90.
41. Ibid., p. 62. The source for the footnote is PRO FO5/906, ff.104–7, d. 2, Coppell to Lord Russell, May 20, 1864.
42. Hill, A British Subject’s Recollections of the Confederacy, p. 63.
43. Belle Boyd, Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison (New York, 1865; repr. Baton Rouge, La., 1998), p. 197.
44. Ruth Scarborough, Siren of the South (Macon, Ga., 1997), p. 157.
45. Boyd, Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison, pp. 200–203.
46. Stephen Z. Starr, Colonel Grenfell’s Wars (Baton Rouge, La., 1971), p. 126.
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1. University College of North Wales, Bangor, Evans MSS 2854, ff.