Keeping things brief: most of the outside world, if they cared at all, favored the Union cause over that of the Confederacy for one of two reasons. read more
In Soviet teaching of history, the Abolitionist movement and the American Civil War were a topic of much importance. Actually, no one studied the military action of the Civil War. read more
There seemed to be a motherly semblance of the future "special relationship", but many Northerners (Irish immigrants and American newspapers in particular) were very suspicious of British intentions. Consequently, both countries at one point or another seemed convinced that they would soon be at war during the Civil War. read more