A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War (2 page)

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“Scene on the Levee at New Orleans on the Departure of the Paroled Rebel Prisoners,”
Harper’s Weekly,
February 20, 1863, copyright © Corbis

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The Chain Bridge across the Potomac above Georgetown,
Illustrated London News
(Frank Vizetelly), October 12, 1861

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Confederates deploying torpedoes by moonlight in the harbor channel, Charleston,
Illustrated London News
(Frank Vizetelly), May 16, 1863

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Great Union and Emancipation meeting held at Exeter Hall, London,
Harper’s Weekly,
March 14, 1863, copyright © Corbis

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“Beware!,”
Punch,
May 2, 1863

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Unloading cotton from blockade runners at Nassau, New Providence,
Illustrated London News
(Frank Vizetelly), April 30, 1864

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Train with reinforcements for General Johnston running off the track in the forests of Mississippi,
Illustrated London News
(Frank Vizetelly), August 8, 1863

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Confederate scouts with percussion caps for the garrison of Vicksburg running the Federal pickets,
Illustrated London News
(Frank Vizetelly), August 29, 1863

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A certificate for the 7 Per Cent Cotton Loan, C. Narbeth, R. Hendy & C. Stocker,
Collecting Paper Money and Bonds

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Southern refugees camping in the woods near Vicksburg,
Illustrated London News
(Frank Vizetelly), August 29, 1863

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General Longstreet’s corps crossing the Blue Ridge from the Shenandoah to the Rappahannock, Virginia,
Illustrated London News
(Frank Vizetelly), January 10, 1863

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The surrender of Vicksburg—the rebels marching out and stacking arms,
Harper’s Weekly
(Theodore R. Davis), August 1, 1863, copyright © Corbis

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The surrender of Vicksburg—view of the city from the riverbank,
Harper’s Weekly
(Theodore R. Davis), August 1, 1863, copyright © Corbis

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“ ‘Rowdy’ Notions of Emancipation,”
Punch,
August 8, 1863

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The Federals shelling the city of Charleston—shells bursting in the streets,
Illustrated London News
(Frank Vizetelly), December 5, 1863

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HMS
Majestic
keeping watch over the steam rams in the Mersey,
Illustrated London News
(based on a drawing by William Woods), November 28, 1863

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View of Chattanooga and the Federal lines from the lower ridge of Lookout Mountain,
Illustrated London News
(Frank Vizetelly), December 26, 1863

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Winter quarters of Jeb Stuart’s cavalry,
Illustrated London News
(Frank Vizetelly), April 2, 1864

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“Neutrality,”
Punch,
November 14, 1863

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The Confederate cruiser
Georgia, Illustrated London News
(based on a drawing by Frank Wilson), May 28, 1864

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A corps of the Confederate army marching by night through burning woods,
Illustrated London News
(Frank Vizetelly), August 6, 1864

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View of Petersburg from General Lee’s headquarters—watching the Federals through binoculars,
Illustrated London News
(Frank Vizetelly), September 3, 1864, copyright © Illustrated London News Ltd. / Mary Evans

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“Very Probable,”
Punch,
August 27, 1864

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“Something for Paddy,”
Punch,
August 29, 1864

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Rendezvous of Mosby’s men,
Illustrated London News
(Frank Vizetelly), January 21, 1865

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“The American Juggernaut,”
Punch,
September 3, 1864, copyright © The Print Collector / Alamy

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“The Federal Phoenix,”
Punch,
December 3, 1864

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Fall of Fort Fisher,
Illustrated London News
(Frank Vizetelly), March 18, 1865

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“The Threatening Notice,”
Punch,
February 18, 1865

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Panorama of Richmond, Virginia, after capture by the Federals,
Illustrated London News
(based on a drawing by Thomas Kennard), October 21, 1865, copyright © Illustrated London News Ltd. / Mary Evans

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“Britannia Sympathises with Columbia,”
Punch,
May 6, 1865

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President Jefferson Davis signing acts of government by the roadside,
Illustrated London News
(Frank Vizetelly), July 22, 1865, copyright © Corbis

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Flight of President Jefferson Davis and his cabinet over the Georgia Ridge,
Illustrated London News
(Frank Vizetelly), July 1, 1865, copyright © Illustrated London News Ltd. / Mary Evans

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President Jefferson Davis bidding farewell to his escort,
Illustrated London News
(Frank Vizetelly), July 22, 1865, copyright © Illustrated London News Ltd. / Mary Evans

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Section One

  
1.
Lord Lyons, British Ambassador in Washington (U.S. National Archives)

  
2.
The British legation (Washington, D.C., Public Library)

  
3.
The partially completed Capitol, Washington (U.S. National Archives)

  
4.
President Lincoln’s inauguration (Library of Congress)

  
5.
The U.S. Senate (U.S. Senate Collection)

  
6.
President Abraham Lincoln (Library of Congress)

  
7.
William Seward (U.S. National Archives)

  
8.
The Royal Exchange, London (Science and Society Picture Library)

  
9.
Cambridge House, home of Lord Palmerston (English Heritage)

10.
The chamber of the House of Commons, 1870 (Hulton Getty)

11.
Lord John Russell (National Portrait Gallery, London)

12.
Lord Palmerston (The Broadlands Archive, Hartley Library, University of Southampton)

13.
Charles Sumner (Library of Congress)

14.
Frederick Douglass (Collection of the New-York Historical Society)

15.
Gideon Welles (U.S. National Archives)

16.
Salmon P. Chase (Library of Congress)

17.
General George McClellan (U.S. National Archives)

18.
The 69th New York Irish Regiment (Library of Congress)

19.
General William Sherman (U.S. National Archives)

20.
William Howard Russell (Hulton Getty)

21.
Edward Dicey (
picturehistory.com
)

22.
Francis Lawley (British Library)

23.
Frank Vizetelly (Library of Congress)

24.
President Jefferson Davis (U.S. National Archives)

25.
President Davis’s inauguration (Boston Athenaeum)

26.
The Confederate White House, Richmond (Library of Congress)

27.
Richmond in 1862 (U.S. National Archives)

28.
General Robert E. Lee (Library of Congress)

29.
General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson (U.S. National Archives)

30.
Lee’s home at Arlington, Virginia (U.S. National Archives)

31.
General Josiah Gorgas (Smithsonian Institute)

32.
Judah P. Benjamin (U.S. National Archives)

33.
Stephen Mallory (U.S. National Archives)

34.
James and Irvine Bulloch (Mr. Henry Skinner)

35.
Henry Hotze (courtesy of the Museum of Mobile)

36.
James M. Mason (U.S. National Archives)

37.
John Slidell (Library of Congress)

38.
The shipyard of the Laird brothers, Liverpool (Moorfields Photographic, Liverpool)

39.
Federal troops marching through New Orleans (Leonard V. Huber,
New Orleans: A Pictorial History,
Penguin, 1991)

40.
Charles Francis Adams, Jr. (Library of Congress)

41.
Henry Adams (Massachusetts Historical Society)

42.
Charles Francis Adams (Boston Athenaeum)

43.
Henry Fielden (Collection of the South Carolina Historical Society)

44.
Francis Dawson (Francis Warrington Dawson papers, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library)

Section Two