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Confederate Agent in Europe Sees War of Words |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Ken Kryvoruka |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2007 |
| Size: 1,120 Words, 7,089 Characters |
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SECRET HISTORY OF CONFEDERATE DIPLOMACY ABROAD
Edwin De Leon
Edited by William C. Davis
University Press of Kansas, 240 pages, $35
Conventional wisdom holds that Confederate efforts to gain diplomatic recognition from European governments, especially after the Battle of Antietam, were futile.
That this judgment, exercised in hindsight, was not shared by most officials in the Union and Confederacy, at least before the summer of 1864, is made vividly clear by Edwin De Leon, who penned the earliest known account by a Confederate agent sent abroad to court England and France during the Civil War.
Indeed, as De Leon shows, a war of words nearly as dramatic as the clash of swords on the American battlefields was raging in Europe over Confederate prospects for independence. Th...
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...h the Confederacy's diplomatic struggle offers an insider's view of the British and French reaction to the Southern cause. Davis' introduction and careful annotation place De Leon in his historical context and provide an informative road map of the Confederate strategy, such as it was, for gaining international recognition as an independent nation.
Copyright © 2006 The Washington Times, LLC.
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