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17 - The Civil War in Europe

from Part III - The Global War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2019

By
Brian Schoen
Edited by
Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Affiliation:
Louisiana State University
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Summary

Winning wars requires having the men and resources necessary to defeat the enemy as well as the political will to use them. The procurement of the first of these and the preservation of the last led the Union and the Confederacy to open fronts far removed from the armies and battlefields traditionally defining American Civil War scholarship. In 1861 the continent of Europe – in some reductive sense the political and economic “center” of a world system – quickly transformed into a unique conflict zone. Agents and officers fought with words, lawyers, rumors, and money, knowing that developments on the European front would materially affect the war’s outcome. This chapter examines the nature of the Confederate and Union offensives in Europe, particularly as men and a few women sought desperately needed supplies, funds, and political encouragement from European governments and their publics.

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The Cambridge History of the American Civil War , pp. 342 - 366
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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