LibGuides: Primary Sources: U.S. Civil War: World View

Online Sources: World View - U.S. Civil War

A friendly voice from England on American affairs (1862)
A reply to "The affectionate and Christian address of many...
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thousands of women of Great Britain and Ireland, to their sisters, the women of the United States of America"
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Canada and the United States
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An address on the American conflict, delivered at Montreal on Thursday evening, December 22, 1864 (1865)
Character of the Southern states of America.
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Letter to a friend who had joined the Southern Independence Association (1863)
England and America
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Speech of Henry Ward Beecher at the Free-trade Hall, Manchester, October 9, 1863 (1863)
Letter to an English friend on the rebellion in the United States
The Civil War in America
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An Address read at the last meeting of the Manchester Union and Emancipation Society

Report of the final meeting of the Union and emancipation society ... January 22nd, 1866:
The war in America
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and what England, or the people of England, may do to restore peace (1863)
Train's Union Speeches
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"Second series." Delivered in England during the present American war (1862)
Union speeches delivered in England during the present American war (1862)
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volume 2
Why the North cannot accept of separation (1863)

An Irishman in Dixie by Thomas Conolly
Call Number: E605 .C764 1988
ISBN: 0872495558
Thomas Conolly's diary of the fall of the Confederacy
My Diary, North and South by William Howard Russell
Call Number: E167.R968 M9
Pictures of Southern Life, Social, Political, and Military by William Howard Russell
Call Number: Online - free - Internet Archive
Written for the London Times
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"A series of letters from various places in the South dated April 30 to June 23, 1861, and written from the standpoint of an outsider. "
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Ruined by This Miserable War by Charles Prosper Fauconnet
Call Number: Online - Ebook Central
ISBN: 9781572338593
The Dispatches of Charles Prosper Fauconnet, a French Diplomat in New Orleans, 1863-1868
The American Question, and how to Settle It (1863) by Charles Tennant
Call Number: Online - free - Internet Archive
The American Rebellion: Letters on the American Rebellion by Samuel A. Goddard
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust Digital Library
The Civil War in the United States by Karl Marx
Call Number: E469.8.M392 C5
The Contest in America (1862) by John Stuart Mill
Call Number: Online - free - Internet Archive
Three Months in the Southern States, April-June, 1863 by Arthur James Lyon Fremantle
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
An Englishman's diary of his experiences in the South April-June, 1863
Thurlow Weed's Letters from Europe, 1861-'62. by Thurlow Weed
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust Digital Library

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