The American Civil War Through British Eyes
Dispatches from British Diplomats, Volume 3: February 1863-December 1865
James Barnes
Patience Barnes
9780873388313
384 pages
The Kent State University Press
Overview
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The three volumes of The American Civil War through British Eyes make available important, previously unpublished documents that fill a void for students and scholars of the war.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.
Author Bio
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.
