Lincoln's Spymaster: Thomas Haines Dudley and the Liverpool Network

by David Hepburn Milton

Overview

• Details the overseas diplomatic and intelligence contest between Union and Confederate governments
• Documents the historically neglected Thomas Haines Dudley and his European network of agents
• Explores the actions that forced neutrality between England and the Union

The American Civil War conjures images of bloody battlefields in the eastern United States. Few are aware of the equally important diplomatic and intelligence contest between the North and South in Europe. While the Confederacy eagerly sought the approval of Great Britain as a strategic ally, the Union utilized diplomacy and espionage to avert both the construction of a Confederate navy and the threat of war with England.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780811751612
Publisher:	Stackpole Books
Publication date:	09/15/2017
Series:	Stackpole Classics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

David Hepburn Milton is a professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Oregon, and author of The Politics of U.S. Labor: From the Great Depression to the New Deal. He and his wife, Nancy Dall Milton, co-authored The Wind Will Not Subside: Years in Revolutionary China 1964-1969, cited in the New York Times best books of the year list, 1976. He also co-edited the Random House China Reader: People's China.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction xiii

Chapter 1 The Second American Revolution 1

Chapter 2 The Balance of Power 13

Chapter 3 A Nest of Pirates 27

Chapter 4 The Escape of the Confederate Cruisers 37

Chapter 5 The Pirates at Work 51

Chapter 6 The Propaganda War 63

Chapter 7 The Confederate Rams 79

Chapter 8 Final Days of the Florida and Alabama 95

Chapter 9 The Failure of Confederate Foreign Strategy 105

Chapter 10 Consul Dudley Stays On 115

Notes 123

Bibliographical Note 135

Index 139

Editorial Reviews

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Publishers Weekly

An engrossing, well-written account of Thomas Haines Dudley’s efforts as Union consul in Liverpool to block the Confederacy’s attempt to build a navy in British shipyards. Had Dudley failed, the Confederacy might have won diplomatic recognition and changed the outcome of the war. Milton’s finely crafted work is a story of intrigue and deception that adds another vital element to the international dimensions of the American Civil War.” –Howard Jones, author of Union in Peril: The Crisis over British Intervention in the Civil War and New Birth of Freedom: The Union and Slavery in the Diplomacy of the Civil War.

Howard Jones

[This is] a convincing and splendidly succinct account of Dudley’s considerable and even vital contribution to the Union’s triumph.” –Brian Jenkins, author of Britain and the War for the Union, Volumes 1 and 2.

Brian Jenkins