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Raphael Semmes (1809–77) CONFEDERATE—Commander of CSS Sumter, 1861–62; Captain of CSS Alabama, 1862–64.

Charles Wilkes (1798–1877) UNION—Captain of USS San Jacinto; instigator of the Trent affair.

John Ancrum Winslow (1811–73) UNION—Captain of USS Kearsarge; sank CSS Alabama.

BRITISH

Diplomats

Sir Edward Mortimer Archibald (1810–94)—British consul at New York, 1857–71.

Robert Bunch—British consul at Charleston, South Carolina, 1853–64.

Joseph Hume Burnley—Secretary of the British legation, Washington.

Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons, 2nd Lord Lyons (1817–87)—Minister at the British legation, Washington,1859–65.

Edward Baldwin Malet (1837–1908)—Attaché at the British legation, Washington, 1862–64.

Charles Stanley Monck, 4th Viscount Monck (1819–94)—Governor-general of Canada, 1867–69.

William Mure (1813–64)—British consul at New Orleans, Louisiana, 1843–57.

Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier (1819–98)—Minister at the British legation, Washington, 1857–59.

Arthur H. Seymour—Third secretary of the British legation, Washington.

George Sheffield—Attaché at the British legation, Washington, 1859–64.

William Stuart (1824–96)—Secretary of the British legation, Washington, 1861–64.

Henry Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley (1804–84)—British ambassador to France, 1852–67.

Journalists

John Chandler Bancroft Davis (1822–1907)—Pro-Northern correspondent, The Times, 1861.

Samuel Phillips Day—Pro-Southern correspondent, Morning Herald, 1861.

John Thadeus Delane (1817–79)—Editor of The Times, 1841–77.

Edward James Stephen Dicey (1832–1911)—Pro-Northern contributor, Spectator.

The Hon. Francis Charles Lawley (1825–1901)—Pro-Southern contributor, The Times.

Charles Mackay (1814–89)—Pro-Southern New York correspondent, The Times, 1862–65.

Harriet Martineau (1802–76)—Writer, social theorist, and contributor to the Edinburgh Review and the Daily News, 1852–68.

Mowbray Morris (1819–74)—Managing editor of The Times.

William Howard Russell (1820–1907)—Celebrated war reporter for The Times.

George Augustus Henry Sala (1828–95)—Novelist and pro-Southern contributor, Daily Telegraph; ghost writer for several pro-Southern memoirs.

Tom Taylor (1817–80)—Journalist and contributor to Punch, playwright, author of Our American Cousin, 1858.

Frank Vizetelly (1830–83)—War artist and correspondent, Illustrated London News.

Observers

Thomas Conolly (1823–76)—Member of Parliament for the County of Donegal.

Griffith Evans (1835–1935)—Veterinarian officer, Royal Artillery, British Army.

Arthur James Lyon Fremantle (1835–1901)—Lieutenant colonel, British Army; member of Her Majesty’s Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards; observer of the Battle of Gettysburg and the New York draft riots, April–July 1863.

Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire, Marquess of Hartington (1833–1908)—Civil Lord of the Admiralty, 1863; British undersecretary for war, 1863–66.

George Alfred Lawrence (1827–76)—British lawyer and novelist; author of Guy Livingstone, 1857.

Edward Fitzgerald Turton Ross (1835–?)—Captain, Austrian Hussars; Confederate propagandist and observer, 1863–64.

Lord Edward Percy St. Maur (1841–65)—Captain, volunteer cavalry, British Army; diplomat.

Edward Lyulph Stanley, 4th Baron Sheffield, 4th Baron Stanley of Alderly, and 3rd Baron Eddisbury (1839–1925)—British peer and member of Parliament for Oldham, 1880–85.

Leslie Stephen (1832–1904)—Author, literary critic, and editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–91.

Henry Yates Thompson (1838–1928)—Owner of the Pall Mall Gazette, 1878–92; observer of General Grant’s victory at Chattanooga, 1863.

Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley (1833–1913)—Field marshal, British Army; special service officer sent to Canada following the Trent affair, 1861; Pro-Southern observer, 1862–65.

Politicians

George John Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll (1823–1900) LIBERAL—Lord Privy Seal, 1853–55, 1859–66, and 1880–81; postmaster general, 1855–58.

John Bright (1811–89) LIBERAL—Manufacturer;