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Great Britain and the American Civil War
by Ephraim Douglass Adams
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Title: Great Britain and the American Civil War
Author: Ephraim Douglass Adams
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[Illustration: LORD JOHN RUSSELL (From Trevelyan's "Garibaldi and the Making of Italy")]
EPHRAIM DOUGLASS ADAMS
GREAT BRITAIN AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
TWO VOLUMES BOUND AS ONE
PREFACE
This work was begun many years ago. In 1908 I read in the British Museum many newspapers and journals for the years 1860-1865, and then planned a survey of English public opinion on the American Civil War. In the succeeding years as a teacher at Stanford University, California, the published diplomatic correspondence of Great Britain and of the United States were studied in connection with instruction given in the field of British-American relations. Several of my students prepared excellent theses on special topics and these have been acknowledged where used in this work. Many distractions and other writ