A World on Fire_ Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War - Amanda Foreman [529]
45. An essential reading list for the Civil War and Anglo-American diplomacy would include: Ephraim D. Adams, H. C. Allen, Richard J. M. Blackett, Kinley Brauer, Duncan Andrew Campbell, Adrian Cook, D. P. Crook, Hugh Dubrulle, Norman B. Ferris, Charles M. Hubbard, Brian Jenkins, Howard Jones, Dean B. Mahin, Robert E. May, Frank Merli, Philip Myers, Frank Owsley, Jay Sexton, Warren F. Spencer, Brian Holden Reid, Philip Van Doren Stern, and Robin Winks.
46. Gladstone, for example, later blamed his support for the South on his inability to see the issue in its entirety: “That my opinion was founded upon a false estimate of the facts was the very least part of my fault. I did not perceive the gross impropriety of such an utterance from a cabinet minister, of a power allied in blood and language, and bound to loyal neutrality; the case being further exaggerated by the fact that we already, so to speak, under indictment before the world for not (as was alleged) having strictly enforced the laws of neutrality in the matter of the cruiser. My offence … illustrates vividly … an incapacity of viewing subjects all round, in their extraneous as well as in their internal properties.” John Morley, The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, 1809–1872, 2 vols. (London, 1908), vol. 2, p. 82.
47. Rossetti, “English Opinion on the American War,” p. 149.
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Glossary
adjutant—A staff officer assigned to handle administrative duties for a commanding officer.
battery—A Union artillery battery had six cannons with more than one hundred men, Confederate batteries usually had four; a position where cannons were mounted.
blockade runner—A swift vessel used by the Confederates to evade the Federal naval blockade of Southern ports; the captain of a blockade runner.
bombproof—A shelter from artillery attack, often built with timber and packed earth.
bounty—A cash bonus paid to entice men into the army.
breastwork—A chest-high barricade built to shield defenders from enemy fire.
canister—A tin can containing twenty-seven iron balls packed in sawdust; when fired from a cannon, the can ripped open and showered the balls at the enemy.
contraband—A term popularized by General Benjamin Butler in 1861 for fugitive slaves who crossed into Northern territory.
corduroy road—A road constructed with logs, often in otherwise impassable muddy areas.
crimping—The forced enlistment of soldiers or sailors by trickery or coercion.
division—A force of approximately 12,000 soldiers