Three Confederate commissioners go to Washington to negotiate the peaceful transfer of Fort Sumter from U.S to Confederate hands.
Category: Foreign Relations
Seeking Friendship, Commerce and Navigation
Jefferson Davis works to obtain foreign recognition for the new Confederacy as Federal military officers resign to go South.
The Capture of the C.S.S. Florida
October 7, 1864 – The Federal steam sloop U.S.S. Wachusett captured the famed Confederate commerce raider C.S.S. Florida under dubious circumstances that threatened diplomatic relations
The Confederate Congress Assembles
December 7, 1863 – The fourth session of the First Confederate States Congress opened in Richmond. The members of Congress assembled amid very trying times
The Confederacy Looks to France
September 5, 1863 – Confederate Lieutenant General Edmund Kirby Smith urged foreign envoy John Slidell to get France to intervene on the Confederacy’s behalf so
The Laird Rams
September 5, 1863 – Charles Francis Adams, U.S. minister to Great Britain, threatened war unless the British stopped clandestinely building warships for the Confederacy. Adams