Marx, Karl and Frederick Engels, The Civil War in the U.S. : International Publishers, 1961.

Karl Marx, New York Tribune articles American Question in England, slavery, , 3-15 British Cotton Trade, , 15-19 Times on the New Orleans Princes in America, 20-25 European intervention , newspapers, Mexican bondholders, 25-34 Trent affair, impact of the news in England, Palmerston, English opinion, 34-54 Part Two Marx and Engels—articles from Vienna Presse The North , British press, reviews coming of the war, slavery question, 58- 71 Peaceful secession, geography, slave population, free population, seceding states, oligarchy, border states, Lincoln and Frémont, 71-83 Blockade, cotton crisis in England, 83-87 Economic interests in England, cotton speculation, 88-91 Mexican intervention, France, England Palmerston, 92-97 Dismissal of Frémont, Lincoln, , 97-100 Trent affair, Seward, French and British interests, Mason, Slidell, 100-120 Lincoln cabinet and the European powers, Palmerston, Manchester, 121-23 English opinion, Trent affair, Palmerston, English newspapers, 123-27 French newspapers, Seward, Trent affair, 128-30 British opinion, antiwar, pro-American, Trent affair, 130-33 Seward, Trent affair, suppressed dispatch, 134-36 Lord John Russell and the Trent affair, Seward, 136-39 London Workers meeting, stoppages of factories, pro-North, false newspaper opinion, 139-43 Liverpool, English opinion against intervention in American war, 144-47 Cotton crisis, 147-50 Parliamentary debate on queen’s speech, Mexico, , Lord Derby, Disraeli, 150-55 Lincoln, removal of McClellan as general in chief, Stanton, McClellan Fabian tactics, Cameron, 155 Confederate friends in Parliament, blockade, odd alliances, Mason, Slidell, Yancey, 160-64 American Civil War, secessionist conspiracy, short term enlistments, Bull Run, Confederate mistakes in the West, Mill Springs, Fort Henry and Donelson, 164-71 Fort Donelson, Nashville, Union leadership, McClellan, Anaconda, decisive campaigns will be and Tennessee, 172-77 France, Mexico, Louis Napoleon, debts, bankers, 177-79 Fall of New Orleans, English press, newspapers skeptical of the news, minimized advantage for Federals, Confederate press, 180-83, 185-86 Slave trade treaty, 183-85 Beauregard, 186 McClellan incompetent, , Williamsburg, Heintzelman, 186-89 Possible guerrillas war, 189-90 British indifferent to brutal treatment of women now outraged by Butler’s woman order, Palmerston, 191-94 Debate on Mexico and possible French alliance, 195-98

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Eastern and western theaters, McClellan, Democratic generals, too easy on slaveholders, border states, abolition party, 198-201 Lincoln, cautious border state man, Wendell Phillips, Gerrit Smith, Garrison, McClellan, , 201-6 Bragg and Kentucky, Perryville, northern operations on inland rivers, Lincoln summoning 300,000, European immigration and , 206-210 Democrats and elections, dismissal of McClellan, Emancipation Proclamation, Burnside, 210-14 English neutrality, the Alabama, Confederate newspaper on increasing Union sea power, 214-17

Part Three Correspondence Karl Marx and Frederick Engels John Brown and slaves in America, 221-22 , 222 Slaves and secessionists, 222 Secret southern conspiracy, Lincoln call for troops, Washington, Missouri Germans, 223-25 Big Bethel, 226 Marx asks a series of questions about the military situation, northern opinion, 226-27 Manassas Junction, position, Big Bethel, Scott, northern soldiers, 227-28 Much opposition to secession except in , quotations from southern newspapers, 228-32 Trent affair, Palmerston, 233-35 Tribune, McClellan in league with Democrats, arrest of Charles Stone, 235-36 Union gunboats, victories in Tennessee, 236 English exports, peace prospects, Mexico, 236-39 Corinth, Beauregard, Shiloh, 239-40 McClellan, McDowell, Frémont, 241 Greeley, Tribune, McClellan, Manassas, 242 French in Mexico, 242 Questions whether northerners are in earnest, 242-43 McClellan and the Peninsula, 243-44 , Beauregard, Corinth, 243-44 Fate of Confederate armies hangs on a single battle, 244-45 Confederates blow up Merrimac (), 245-46 Northern paper money, English opinion, northern debt, 246-47 Halleck and Corinth, 247 Disease in army, Halleck, Stanton, suspension of recruiting, Curtis, Sigel, size of Union forces, 247-50 Stanton, McClellan, McDowell, Frémont, Banks, 250 Defeats, failure to wage war in a revolutionary way, stupid generals, 250-51 Confederates in earnest, 251-52 Border states, McClellan, northerners divided, southerners unified, political problem of getting 300,000 more volunteers, problem with selecting generals, 252-53 Second Bull Run, , Pope, 253-54 Antietam campaign and border states, 255-57 War finances, paper money, 257-58 National existence and Yankee will, Democratic victories, 258-59 New York elections, Democrats, McClellan, Lincoln and emancipation, 259-60

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Confederates’ desperate situation, Corinth, conscription, Democratic victories, McClellan, Hooker, 260-61 Christian slave nature of British workers, aristocratic sympathy for slavery, 261-62 Burnside, Fredericksburg, errors in strategy, 262-63 Treason in War Department, McClellan, Burnside, Democrats, 263-64 London Times on workingmen’s meetings in Manchester, Sheffield, and London, 264 Letters of Marque, Seward, Trent affair, 265-66 Rosecrans, Hooker, 266 Vicksburg, 266 Lee and Gettysburg, 266-67 Times of London, Confederate loan, northerners and southern ports, 267 Grant’s strategy, 267 Butler, Beauregard, Petersburg, 269 Lee and Petersburg, Grant impatience, 269-71 Critical American situation, possible Grant and Sherman victories, Lincoln’s reelection, Confederate press, 271-72 Siege of Richmond, 272 Address of the First International to Lincoln, 273-74, 279-81 1865, campaign against Richmond will be decisive, 274 Lee running away, a shabby fellow, 275 Follow of Confederates in Lincoln assassination, applauds sternness of , confiscation, 275-76 Address of First International to Andrew Johnson, 276, 283-85 Andrew Johnson’s policy, racism, 276-77

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