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The American Civil War through British Eyes Dispatches from British Diplomats,
Volume 2 2005, 364 pp
courtesy of our partner, Atlas Books |
The dispatches from Lord Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons, Second Baron, British Envoy Extraordinary in Washington, D.C., during the Civil War offer insight into contemporaneous Anglo–American relations. The five-year period covered in these three volumes witnessed the fierce and deadly battles of the war fought both in the North and in the South, the shifting moods of public opinion and patriotic fervor, the changing economic conditions, and the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
The three volumes of The American Civil War
through British Eyes make available important, previously unpublished documents
that fill a void
for students
and scholars of the war. Lyon’s dispatches offer a unique perspective
on America during its bitterest test of national unity. Through them the
Civil War unfolds not in retrospect but through the eyes of a contemporary
observer.
James J. Barnes is professor of history at Wabash College in Indiana. He was a Rhodes and Fulbright Scholar and received a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship.
Patience P. Barnes is a research associate at Wabash College and a freelance writer and editor.
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