The Secret Service of the Confederate States in Europe or, How the Confederate Cruisers Were Equipped
, by Bulloch, James D.; Stern, Philip Van Doren
- ISBN: 9780679640226 | 0679640223
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 6/12/2001
At the outbreak of the Civil War, Jefferson Davis sent merchant marine James D. Bulloch to Europe to clandestinely acquire arms and ships for the Confederate navy. His first stop was Britain, a country hedging its bets on who would win the War Between the States and willing to secretly provide the Confederacy with the naval technology to fight the Union on the high seas. Bulloch's mission continued for the length of the war, and his story, told by the man himself, is one of the least-understood aspects of the Civil War, even today.
<b>James D. Bulloch</b> was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1823 and became a midshipman in the U. S. navy at the age of sixteen. After the war he remained in England, where his nephew, a young Theodore Roosevelt, visited him in the 1870s while researching what would become his first book, <i>The Naval War of 1812</i>. <br><br><b>Philip Van Doren Stern</b> (1900-1984) was one of the most influential Civil War historians of the twentieth century. <br><br>
| Introduction | p. xv |
| A Chart of the Naval Histories of the Confederate Cruisers of European Origin | p. xxvi |
| Chronology | p. xxix |
| Preface | p. xxxix |
| Foreword | p. 3 |
| p. 15 | |
| Sketch of the anomalous condition of the whole country, North and South, during the period between the election of Mr. Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States and the beginning of hostilities, in theory an undivided Republic, in fact two separate Governments: one at Washington, one at Montgomery | |
| The organization of the Confederate Navy Department | |
| The poverty of the South with respect to naval resources | |
| The naval policy of the Confederate Government | |
| The necessity of looking abroad for the means to carry on naval operations | |
| The commencement of hostilities | |
| The Louisiana "Board of War" and the Bienville | |
| Personal incidents | |
| Journey South | |
| Blocking the Mississippi | |
| p. 37 | |
| Messrs. Fraser, Trenholm and Co. | |
| The Confederate Commissioners | |
| Major Huse, the Military Agent | |
| Early operations | |
| Restrictions of the Proclamations of Neutrality | |
| Their effects upon United States and Confederate Cruisers | |
| The Oreto (Florida) | |
| Messrs. Laird and the Alabama | |
| The Equipment of the Alabama | |
| Counsel's Opinion on the Foreign Enlistment Act | |
| Despatch of the Bermuda with supplies for the Confederate Army | |
| Second Voyage and Capture of the Bermuda | |
| The Trial at Philadelphia | |
| The United States and belligerent rights | |
| Decree of Court in the Bermuda case | |
| Contrast between the action of the United States as a belligerent and as a neutral concerning belligerent rights | |
| The United States and neutral vessels during the Crimean War | |
| The Bahama Islands "Regulations" of the British Government | |
| Reasons for the seeming indifference of the British Government | |
| Precedents established by the United States favourable to Great Britain | |
| European Naval Armaments | |
| British Ship-building | |
| Importance of British Mercantile Marine | |
| Weakness of the United States as a Naval Power | |
| Former efficiency of the American Navy | |
| Seamanship in the Past and the Present | |
| p. 69 | |
| Financial embarrassments of the Confederate Agents | |
| Incomplete organization of the Confederate Executive at this period | |
| The financial arrangements of the Confederate States in Europe | |
| Incompleteness of the instructions of the Naval Representative, and insufficiency of the arrangements to meet financial requirements | |
| Purchase and equipment of the Fingal, afterwards the Atlanta | |
| Shipment of war material | |
| Mr. Low, second officer of the Fingal | |
| An unfortunate start | |
| The island of Terceira | |
| The crew agree to run the blockade | |
| Arrival in the Savannah river | |
| The state of the Southern forces | |
| Correspondence concerning the future operations of the Fingal | |
| Enlargement of powers as Naval Representative in Europe | |
| Flag-officer Josiah Tattnall | |
| Conversion of the Fingal into the armour-clad Atlanta | |
| Her engagement with and capture by two United States "Monitors." | |
| Return to England | |
| p. 104 | |
| The Florida | |
| Captain Duguid | |
| Correspondence concerning the Florida | |
| Her arrival at Nassau | |
| Commander Maffitt | |
| The United States blockade of the British Bahama Channel | |
| The equipping of the Florida | |
| Yellow fever | |
| The Florida runs the blockade at Mobile | |
| An unparalleled chase | |
| The Florida's cruise in the West Indies | |
| Vessels captured by the Florida | |
| Her stay at Brest | |
| Her second cruise | |
| Her assassination by the Wachusett | |
| Justification of the use of the term "assassination." | |
| The Brazilian Government and the capture of the Florida | |
| United States treatment of prisoners-of-war | |
| p. 160 | |
| The building of the Alabama | |
| Suspicions of the United States Consul at Liverpool | |
| Captain Butcher | |
| The equipping of the Alabama | |
| Quitting Liverpool | |
| Bond, the Pilot | |
| Official Correspondence | |
| Captain Semmes | |
| The Alabama handed over to his charge | |
| Some matters connected with the clearance of the Alabama from Liverpool | |
| Mr. Price Edwards, the Collector of Customs at that Port | |
| The Alabama's first engagement | |
| The Alabama a legitimate vessel-of-war | |
| Action of the United States in regard to commissioning vessels at sea | |
| Influence of the cruisers on the United States carrying trade | |
| The Alabama's action with the Kearsarge | |
| Mr. Seward and Earl Russell | |
| p. 207 | |
| The Confederate cruisers and the Foreign Enlistment Act | |
| The protest of the United States against the "laxity" of the British Government | |
| The answer of the British Government | |
| The Confederate States admitted to be belligerents by the Supreme Court of the United States, and acknowledged as such by the European Powers | |
| Debate in the House of Commons | |
| European recruits for the United States Army in England | |
| Review of the situation of the belligerents in regard to neutral States | |
| The American and the English Foreign Enlistment Acts | |
| The Alexandra Case | |
| The Crown witnesses | |
| Conclusions to be drawn from this case | |
| After-history of the Alexandra | |
| Other vessels searched at the instigation of the United States Consul | |
| United States purchases in England | |
| The Board of Trade Returns | |
| Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co. and the United States | |
| Condition of the Confederates during the War | |
| p. 260 | |
| Review of the Situation in November, 1861 | |
| Changed purposes of the Confederate Government in regard to their naval operations | |
| Armour-clad vessels required | |
| Two contracted for with Messrs. Laird Brothers | |
| Correspondence concerning them | |
| Their transfer to Messrs. Bravay, and their ultimate purchase by Government and enrollment in her Majesty's navy as the Scorpion and the Wivern | |
| Action of her Majesty's Government and that of the United States in reference to these vessels | |
| Inconsistency of the declarations and actions of the British Government | |
| p. 317 | |
| English Political Parties and the Civil War | |
| Pertinacity of Mr. Secretary Seward | |
| Vacillation of the Liberal Government | |
| Present Position of the Liberal Party | |
| The French Proclamation of Neutrality | |
| Arrangements for building cruisers at Bordeaux | |
| Appropriation of [pound]2,000,000 for Ironclads by Congress | |
| Financial difficulties | |
| Propositions to purchase vessels from the French Navy | |
| Correspondence concerning the vessels building in France | |
| Deceptive attitude of the French Government | |
| The vessels sold by their imperative orders | |
| Panic at Boston and New York regarding the Confederate cruisers | |
| p. 361 | |
| Misconception by the United States of the attitude of the English and French Governments | |
| Repurchase of the Sphinx from Denmark | |
| Precarious condition of the Confederate Cause at that period | |
| Correspondence concerning the despatch of the Stonewall (Sphinx) from Copenhagen in conjunction with the City of Richmond from London | |
| The Stonewall's challenge to the United States ships Niagara and Sacramento | |
| Surrender of the Stonewall to the Cuban Government at the end of the War | |
| Her subsequent delivery to the United States | |
| Presidents Lincoln and Johnson | |
| The "reconstruction" of the Southern States | |
| Political condition of the United States at the present day | |
| Notes | p. 609 |
| Index | p. 615 |
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