Great Britain and the American Civil War

by Ephraim Douglass Adams

Adams, John (Second President of the U.S.), i. [62], [81]

Adams, John Quincy, i. [11], [20], [62], [81]

African Slave Trade, attitude of the South to, i. [85]-[6]; ii. [88]; suppression of, international efforts for, i. [8]-[10]; punishment to slave traders in American law, [9]; American attitude to right of search, [9], [10], [219]; British anti-slavery policy, [31]-[2]; wane of British interest in, [10], [32]; ii. [90]; Slave Trade Treaty signed, i. [10], [275], [276]; ii. [90], [91]

Agassiz, L., i. [37] note.

Akroyd, Edward, ii. [193] note.

Alabama, The, ii. [35], [116], [119]-[120]; departure of, from Liverpool, [118]; British order to stop departure, [119], [120] and note[2], [133]; Russell's private feelings as to, [121], [124]; public opinion in Great Britain on, [129]-[130]; Palmerston's defence of Government action on, [134]-[5]; American anger over, [119], [127]; measures against, [121]-[3], [127]; New York Chamber of Commerce protest on, [126]; claim for damages on account of, [151] note[1]; mentioned, i. [138]; ii. [129] note[1], [131], [134], [136], [145], [146]

Alexandra, case, The: Seizure of the vessel, ii. [136], [139], [140], [152], [161] note[4]; public approval, [136]; law actions on, [136] note[2], [142], [149], [152], [185], [195]; American anxiety at Court decision, [143]; final result, [196] note[2]

America, Central: British-American disputes in, i. [16], [17]

American: Civil War: i. [86], [87] and note[2], [99]; British public and official views at the commencement of, [40]-[60]; origins of; American and British views, i. [47]-[8]; efforts at compromise, [49]; British official attitude on outbreak of, [73]; European opinion of, after duration of three years, ii. [219]; compared with the Great War in Europe, [219]; British attitude to democracy as determining attitude to the War, i. [77]; ii. [303]-[5]; bearing of, on democracy in Great Britain, [299] Union, The: British views of, i. [15]; prognostications of its dissolution, [36], [37] War of Independence, i. [2]-[3], [17]; adjustments after the Treaty of Peace, [3]; as fostering militant patriotism, [7], [8] note; commercial relations after, [17]-[18] "War of 1812" i. [4], [7], [18]; causes leading to, [5]-[7]; New England opposition to, [7], [18]; effect of, on American National unity, [7] See also under United States

Anderson, Major, Northern Commander at Fort Sumter, i. [117]