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Collection Reference Number GLC00267.360
From Archive Folder Unassociated Civil War Documents 1865 
Title American neutrality
Date 1865
Author Harcourt, William George Granville Venables Vernon (1827-1904)  
Document Type Pamphlet; Correspondence
Content Description Written by Harcourt as a journalist in Britain under the pseudonym "Historicus." Cover says the pamphlet is reprinted version of his letters to the London Times of 22 December 1864. The letters focused on questions of international law resulting from the Civil War in the United States. He was against recognition of the Southern states as belligerents and was influential in the formulation of English public opinion on this problem. He also sought to define Great Britain's role as a neutral country.
Subjects Military History  Global History and Civics  Civil War  Union Forces  Confederate States of America  Treaty  Government and Civics  
Place written New York, New York
Theme The American Civil War; Foreign Affairs; Government & Politics
Sub-collection Papers and Images of the American Civil War
Additional Information Harcourt would later become a well-known Liberal Democratic parliamentarian associated with Prime Minister William Gladstone's accession to power. He was Chancellor of the Exchequer 1892-1895.
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945