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82. Keen, “Surgical Reminiscences of the Civil War,” 433; Wilkeson, Recollections of a Private Soldier, 206–7.

83. Ella Lonn, Desertion During the Civil War (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998 [1928]), 226; Mark A. Weitz, More Damning than Slaughter: Desertion in the Confederate Army (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005), 14; Vinovskis, “Have Social Historians Lost the Civil War?” 10; Judith Lee Hallock, “The Role of the Community in Civil War Desertion,” Civil War History 29 (June 1983): 126; Nelson and Sheriff, A People at War, 203–4.

84. Moore, ed., Rebellion Record, 4:65; George Henry Mills, History of the 16th North Carolina Regiment in the Civil War (Hamilton, NY: Edmonston, 1992 [1903]), 14–15; Stevens, Berdan’s United States Sharpshooters, 151; George R. Stewart, Pickett’s Charge: A Microhistory of the Final Attack at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863, 2nd ed. (Dayton, OH: Morningside Press, 1980), 106.

85. Alfred Bellard, Gone for a Soldier: The Civil Memoirs of Private Alfred Bellard, ed. David Donald (Boston: Little, Brown, 1975), 188; Glatthaar, General Lee’s Army, 190.

86. Wightman, From Antietam to Fort Fisher, 91; Holmes, “The Fraternity of Arms,” December 11, 1897, in The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions and Other Writing of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., ed. R. A. Posner (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992), 73; Baker, Justice from Beacon Hill, 131–32.

87. Linderman, Embattled Courage, 74; “The Diary of Corporal Westwood James,” ed. Michael Musick, Civil War Times Illustrated 17 (October 1978): 35; Blake, Three Years in the Army of the Potomac, 292; Holsinger, “How Does One Feel Under Fire,” May 5, 1898, in War Talks in Kansas: A Series of Papers Read Before the Kansas Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (Kansas City, MO: Franklin Hudson, 1906), 294; Nolan, The Iron Brigade, 140; David Thompson, “With Burnside at Antietam,” in Battles and Leaders, 2:661–62; Michael Hanifen, History of Battery B, First New Jersey Artillery (Hightstown, NJ: Longstreet House, 1991 [1905]), 53.

88. Judson, History of the Eighty-Third Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, 186–87.

1. E. C. Boykin, Sea Devil of the Confederacy: The Story of the Florida and Her Captain, John Newland Maffitt (New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1959), 3–9.

2. Stephen R. Wise, Lifeline of the Confederacy (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1988), 59–60, 166, 180, 221, 226.

3. Lincoln, “Proclamation of a Blockade,” April 19, 1861, in Collected Works, 4:338–39.

4. Sven Beckert, “Emancipation and Empire: Reconstructing the Worldwide Web of Cotton Production in the Age of the Civil War,” American Historical Review 109 (December 2009): 1408; “Henry L. Benning’s Secessionist Speech,” in Secession Debated: Georgia’s Showdown in 1860, 131.

5. W. H. Russell, My Diary North and South, 69.

6. Sir Francis Taylor Piggott, The Declaration of Paris, 1856 (London: University of London Press, 1919), 116, 142–46; Mountague Bernard, A Historical Account of the Neutrality of Great Britain During the American Civil War (London: Longmans, 1870), 41–48, 106–21.

7. T. H. Lee and M. D. Ramsay, “The Story of the Prize Cases: Executive Action and Judicial Review in Wartime,” in Presidential Power Stories, ed. C. H. Schroeder and C. A. Bradley (Eagan, MN: Foundation Press, 2009), 60.

8. Charles Francis Adams Jr., Charles Francis Adams (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1899), 146–48, 170–71, 175–76; Martin Duberman, Charles Francis Adams, 1807–1886 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1961), 264; Russell to Adams, May 4, 1865, in Das Staatsarchiv: Sammlung der offiziellen Aktenstücke zur der Geschichte der Gegenwart—Achter Band 1865, Januar bis Juni, ed. L. K. Aegidi and A. Klauhold (Hamburg: Otto Meissner, 1865), 135–36, 137–39; Ludwell H. Johnson, “The Confederacy: What Was It? The View from the Federal Courts,” Civil War History 32 (March 1986): 6.

9. William H. Seward, “Some Thoughts for the President’s Consideration,” in Dear Mr. Lincoln: Letters to the President, ed. Harold Holzer (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1993), 239; Lincoln, “To William H. Seward,” in Collected Works, 4:316–18.

10. Seward to Adams, May 21, 1861, in Neutrality of Great Britain in the Civil War: Senate Document No. 18, 58th Congress (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1903), 25.

11. Duberman, Charles Francis Adams, 268; Brian Jenkins, Britain and the War for the Union (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1974), 1:104–9.

12. Michael Embree, Bismarck’s First War: The Campaign of Schleswig and Jutland 1864 (Solihull, UK: Helion, 2006), 272–86.

13. Donald L. Canney, The Old Steam Navy, vol. 1: Frigates, Sloops, and Gunboats, 1815–1885 (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1990), 91–94; Stephen R. Taaffe, Commanding Lincoln’s Navy: Union Naval Leadership During the Civil War (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2009), 26.

14. Wilkes to Gideon Welles, November 16, 1861, in The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, ed. Frank Moore (New York: G. P. Putnam, 1868), 3:323–24.

15. Charles Francis Adams Jr., The Trent Affair: An Historical Retrospect (Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1912), 7; D. M. Fairfax and Charles Wilkes (November 12, 1861), in Rebellion Record, 3: 328–30.

16. Russell to Lyons, November 30, 1861, London Gazette 22589 (January 14, 1862): 196–97; Edwin De Leon, Secret History of Confederate Diplomacy Abroad, ed. William C. Davis (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005), 80.

17. David Ross, Canadian Campaigns 1860–70 (New York: Osprey, 1992), 5; George Taylor Denison, Soldiering in Canada: Recollections and Experiences (London: Macmillan, 1900), 33–34; Hereward Senior, The Last Invasion of Canada: The Fenian Raids, 1866–1870 (Toronto: Dundurn, 1991), 26–27.

18. Virgil Carrington Jones, The Civil War at Sea: The Blockaders, January 1861–March 1862 (New York: Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1960), 292–310; John A. Williams, “Canada and the Civil War,” in The Shot Heard Round the World: The Impact Abroad of the Civil War, ed. Harold Hyman (New York: Knopf, 1969), 269; Ernest J. Chambers, The Royal Grenadiers: A Regimental History of the 10th Infantry Regiment of the Active Militia of Canada (Toronto: E. L. Ruddy, 1904), 13–14; Robin W. Winks, The Civil War Years: Canada and the United States (Toronto: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1998 [1960]), 82.

19. John Ramsden, An Appetite for Power: A History of the Conservative Party Since 1830 (London: HarperCollins, 1999), 51.

20. Duberman, Charles Francis Adams, 264; Frank Lawrence Owsley, King Cotton Diplomacy: Foreign