hide Sorting

You can sort these results in two ways:

By entity
Chronological order for dates, alphabetical order for places and people.
By position (current method)
As the entities appear in the document.

You are currently sorting in descending order. Sort in ascending order.

hide Most Frequent Entities

The entities that appear most frequently in this document are shown below.

Entity Max. Freq Min. Freq
United States (United States) 1,340 0 Browse Search
W. T. Sherman 340 6 Browse Search
Ulysses S. Grant 275 3 Browse Search
James Longstreet 260 4 Browse Search
J. E. Johnston 244 0 Browse Search
T. J. Jackson 240 4 Browse Search
Abraham Lincoln 225 3 Browse Search
Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) 219 1 Browse Search
R. E. Lee 180 0 Browse Search
A. P. Hill 168 14 Browse Search
View all entities in this document...

Browsing named entities in a specific section of Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government. Search the whole document.

Found 417 total hits in 44 results.

1 2 3 4 5
May 1st, 1861 AD (search for this): chapter 1.24
e than practically effective in February, 1862, and that the manner in which it has since been enforced gives to neutral governments no excuse for asserting that the blockade had not been effectively maintained. The partiality of Her Majesty's government in favor of our enemies was further evinced in the marked difference of its conduct on the subject of the purchase of supplies by the two belligerents. This difference was conspicuous from the very commencement of the war. As early as May 1, 1861, the British minister in Washington was informed by the Secretary of State of the United States that he had sent agents to England, and that others would go to France, to purchase arms; this fact was communicated to the British Foreign Office, which interposed no objection. Yet, in October of the same year, Earl Russell entertained the complaint of the United States minister in London that the Confederate States were importing contraband of war from the island of Nassau, directed inquiry
May 6th, 1862 AD (search for this): chapter 1.24
n the harbor, Seward had explained that the Government of the United States had, last spring, with a navy very little prepared for so extensive an operation, undertaken to blockade upward of three thousand miles of coast. The Secretary of the Navy had reported that he could stop up the large holes by means of his ships, but that he could not stop up the small ones. It has been found necessary, therefore, to close some of the numerous small inlets by sinking vessels in the channel. On May 6, 1862, so far from claiming the right of British subjects as neutrals to trade with us as belligerents, and to disregard the blockade on the ground of this explicit confession by our enemy of his inability to render it effective, Her Majesty's Minister for Foreign Affairs claimed credit with the United States for friendly action in respecting it. His lordship stated that— The United States Government, on the allegation of a rebellion pervading from nine to eleven States of the Union, have n
1856 AD (search for this): chapter 1.24
to confer signal advantages on the United States. A few words in explanation may here be necessary. Prior to the year 1856 the principles regulating this subject were to be gathered from the writings of eminent publicists, the decisions of admirconflicts (such was the official language), the five great powers of Europe, together with Sardinia and Turkey, adopted in 1856 the following declaration of principles: 1. Privateering is and remains abolished. 2. The neutral flag covers enemited States in 1812; they also formed one of the principal motives that led to the declaration of the Congress of Paris in 1856, in the fond hope of imposing an enduring check on the very abuse of maritime power which was renewed by the United Statesis subject further. Suffice it to say that the British government, when called upon to redeem its pledge made at Paris in 1856, and renewed to the Confederacy in 1861, replied that it could not regard the blockade of Southern ports as having been ot
October 30th, 1862 AD (search for this): chapter 1.24
ty. It could neither expect nor desire more. The complaint was that the declared neutrality was delusive, not real; that recognized neutral rights were alternately asserted and waived in such manner as to bear with great severity on us, while conferring signal advantages on our enemy. Perhaps it may not be out of place here to notice a correspondence between the cabinets of France, Great Britain, and Russia, relative to a mediation between the Confederacy and the United States. On October 30, 1862, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Drouyn de l'huys, addressed a note to the ambassadors of France at London and St. Petersburg. In this dispatch he stated that the Emperor had followed with painful interest the struggle which had then been going on for more than a year on this continent. He observed that the proofs of energy, preseverance, and courage, on both sides, had been given at the expense of innumerable calamities and immense bloodshed; to the accompaniments of civil c
1 2 3 4 5