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The diplomacy of the American Civil War involved the relations of the United States and the Confederate States of America with the major world powers during the American Civil War of 1861–1865. The United States prevented other powers from recognizing the Confederacy, which counted heavily on Britain and France to enter the war on its side to ...
The Burden of Confederate Diplomacy (1998) ISBN 1-57233-092-9; Jones, Howard. Union in Peril: The Crisis Over British Intervention in the Civil War (1992) ISBN 0-8032-7597-8; Jones, Howard. Blue & Gray Diplomacy: A History of Union and Confederate Foreign Relations (2010). University of North Carolina Press online. Landon, Fred (1922).
Pages in category "Confederate States of America diplomats" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Hampton Roads Conference was a peace conference held between the United States and representatives of the unrecognized breakaway Confederate States on February 3, 1865, aboard the steamboat River Queen in Hampton Roads, Virginia, to discuss terms to end the American Civil War.
James Murray Mason (November 3, 1798 – April 28, 1871) was an American lawyer and politician who became a Confederate diplomat. He served as senator from Virginia, having previously represented Frederick County, Virginia, in the Virginia House of Delegates.
The Confederate States peace commission was agreed to on February 15, 1861 in a resolution adopted by the newly-formed Confederate Congress [1] that empowered Confederate President-elect Jefferson Davis to appoint a commission of three men to negotiate "friendly relations" with the United States.
Blue & Gray Diplomacy: A History of Union and Confederate Foreign Relations (2010) Jones, Howard. Abraham Lincoln and a New Birth of Freedom: The Union and Slavery in the Diplomacy of the Civil War. (U of Nebraska Press, 1999). May, Robert E. "The Irony of Confederate Diplomacy: Visions of Empire, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Quest for Nationhood."
The Chesapeake Affair was an international diplomatic incident that occurred during the American Civil War.On December 7, 1863, Confederate sympathizers from the British colonies Nova Scotia and New Brunswick captured the American steamer Chesapeake off the coast of Cape Cod.