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Foreign enlistment in the American Civil War (1861–1865) reflected the conflict's international significance among both governments and their citizenry. Diplomatic and popular interest were aroused by the United States' status as a nascent power at the time, and by the war's central cause being the globally divisive issue of slavery. [ 2 ]
The British Foreign Service and the American Civil War (2015). Blackett, R. J. M. Divided Hearts: Britain and the American Civil War (2001) online. Campbell, Duncan Andrew. English Public Opinion and the American Civil War (2003). Crook, D. P. The North, The South, and the Powers, 1861–1865 (1974), focus on Britain and Canada.
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The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.
The United States and France: Civil War Diplomacy (1970). Doyle, Don H. The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War (Basic Books, 2014). Fry, Joseph A. Lincoln, Seward, and US Foreign Relations in the Civil War Era (University Press of Kentucky, 2019). Hanna, Alfred Jackson, and Kathryn Abbey Hanna.
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland remained officially neutral throughout the American Civil War (1861–1865). It legally recognized the belligerent status of the Confederate States of America (CSA) but never recognized it as a nation and neither signed a treaty with it nor ever exchanged ambassadors.
The Confederate Conscription Acts, 1862 to 1864, were a series of measures taken by the Confederate government to procure the manpower needed to fight the American Civil War. The First Conscription Act, passed April 16, 1862, made any white male between 18 and 35 years old liable to three years of military service.
He used the hoax to raise his own profile in the U.S. as a war hero, while also attempting to garner support for filibuster missions in Cuba. The episode draws attention to the influence of the media and yellow journalism on American sentiment towards foreign affairs during the period. [29]