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Bayonets, Balloons & Ironclads: Britain and France Take Sides With the South

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by Tsouras, Peter G.


  *53rd Foot

  *55th Foot

  6th Arty Bde

  Preston

  11th Depot Bn

  Scheffield

  1/8th Foot

  Schorncliffe

  1/5th Foot

  83rd Foot

  9th Arty Bde

  23rd Co, RE

  Southton

  16th Co, RE (Survey)

  Walmer

  6th Depot Bn

  Wincester

  7th Depot Bn

  Woolwich

  1st Hvy Arty Bde

  13th Arty Bde

  8th Co, RE

  Military Train (1st Bn)

  York

  16th Lancers

  Sterling

  22nd Depot Bn

  Ireland

  Dublin

  1/10th Foot

  1/11th Foot

  2/19th Foot

  *58th Foot

  8th Arty Bde

  13th Co, RE (Survey)

  14th Co, RE (Survey)

  Athlone

  12th Depot Bn

  Birr

  13th Depot Bn

  Buttevant

  15th Depot Bn

  Belfast

  14h Depot Bn

  Curragh2

  *11th Hussars

  15th Hussars

  2/12th Foot

  29th Foot

  32nd Foot

  45th Foot

  84th Foot

  86th Foot

  17th Engr Co

  Military Train (6th Bn)

  Cahir

  5th Dragoon Gds

  Dundalk

  4th Dragoon Gds

  Limerick

  17th Depot Bn

  Cork

  20th Depot Bn

  Templemore

  16th Depot Bn

  Fermoy

  18th Depot Bn

  19th Depot Bn

  Mediterranean

  Cephelonia

  1/9th Foot

  Corfu

  2/2nd Foot

  2/4th Foot

  2/6th Foot

  2/9th Foot

  3rd Arty Bde

  29th Co, RE

  30th Co, RE

  Gibraltar

  2/9th Foot

  2/8th Foot

  100th Foot

  1st Hvy Arty Bde

  3rd Co, RE

  27th Co, RE

  33rd Co, RE

  Malta

  2/15th Foot

  1/22nd Foot

  2/22nd Foot

  1/25th Foot

  4/1st Rifle Bde

  Royal Malta Fencible Arty

  3rd Arty Bde

  28th Co, RE

  31st Co, RE

  British North America

  Canada

  1/Grenadier Gds

  2/Scots Fusilier Gds

  1/16th Foot

  1/17th Foot

  30th Foot

  47th Foot

  4/60th Foot

  62nd Foot

  63rd Foot

  1/Rifle Bde

  Royal Canadian Rifle Regt

  7th Arty Bde (Montreal)

  10th Arty Bde

  15th Co, RE

  18th Co, RE

  Military Train (3rd Bn)

  New Brunswick

  1/15th Foot

  Nova Scotia

  2/16th Foot

  2/17th Foot

  15th Arty Bde (Halifax)

  Bermuda

  39th Foot

  5th Co, RE

  34th Co, RE

  West Indies

  Bahamas

  2/West India Regt

  Barbados

  1/21st Foot

  Jamaica

  1/14th Foot

  4/West India Regt

  5/West India Regt

  Nassau

  1/West Indian Regt

  India and Ceylon

  Agra

  25th Arty Bde

  Bangalore

  3rd Hvy Arty Bde

  Bengal

  2nd Dragoon Gds

  7th Dragoon Gds

  5th Lancers

  7th Hussars

  8th Hussars

  19th Hussars

  20th Hussars

  21st Hussars

  1/7th Foot

  1/13th Foot

  1/19th Foot

  1/20th Foot

  1/23rd Foot

  27th Foot

  34th Foot

  35th Foot

  36th Foot

  38th Foot

  42nd Foot

  43rd Foot

  46th Foot

  48th Foot

  51st Foot

  52nd Foot

  54th Foot

  71st Foot

  77th Foot

  79th Foot

  80th Foot

  81st Foot

  82nd Foot

  88th Foot

  89th Foot

  90th Foot

  93rd Foot

  94th Foot

  97th Foot

  98th Foot

  101st Foot

  104th Foot

  107th Foot

  2/Rifle Bde

  3/Rifle Bde

  11th Arty Bde

  14th Arty Bde

  Bombay

  3rd Dragoon Gds

  6th Dragoons

  1/4th Foot

  28th Foot

  33rd Foot

  44th Foot

  56th Foot

  72nd Foot

  95th Foot

  103rd Foot

  106th Foot

  109th Foot

  Calcutta

  2/20th Foot

  Dehli

  16th Arty Bde

  Jullundar

  22nd Arty Bde

  Kamptee

  20th Arty Bde

  Kirkee

  4th Hvy Arty Bde

  18th Arty Bde

  Madras

  1st Dragoon Gds

  17th Lancers

  1/1st Foot

  1/18th Foot

  2/21st Foot

  3/60th Foot

  66th Foot

  68th Foot

  69th Foot

  74th Madras

  91st Foot

  102nd Foot

  105th Foot

  108th Foot

  17th Arty Bde

  Mean Meer

  24th Arty Bde

  Meerut

  2nd Hvy Arty Bde

  Mhow

  21st Arty Bde

  Peshawar

  19th Arty Bde

  Secundarbad

  23rd Arty Bde

  Umballah

  5th Hvy Arty Bde

  Ceylon

  2/25th Foot

  50th Foot

  Ceylon Rifle Regt

  Australia and New Zealand

  Australia

  1/12th Foot (NS Wales)

  New Zealand

  2/14th Foot

  2/18th Foot

  40th Foot

  57th Foot

  65th Foot

  70th Foot

  6th Co, RE

  Africa

  Cape of Good Hope

  2/10th Foot

  2/11th Foot

  96th Foot

  Cape Mounted Rifles

  12th Co, RE

  25th Co, RE

  Natal

  2/5th Foot

  West Coast of Africa

  3/West India Regiment

  Miscellaneous

  Mauritius

  2/13th Foot

  2/24th Foot

  12th Arty Bde

  11th Co, RE

  21st Co, RE

  China

  31st Foot

  67th Foot

  99th Foot

  8th Co, RE

  St. Helena

  32nd Co, RE

  APPENDIX C

  National Intelligence Assessment 12: British Ironclads

  as of 15 March 1864

  The following list identifies British ironclads in service and those building in British shipyards with estimated dates of completion.


  Table 1. British Ironclads in Service

  Table 2. Characteristics of British Ironclads in Service

  Table 3. British Ironclads under Construction*

  Table 3. Characteristics of British Ironclads under Construction

  *Does not include the twenty turreted monitor-type ships of the Revenge Class recently laid down.

  APPENDIX D

  Report of the War Production Board Ironclad Production

  March 15, 1864

  The following ironclads of the U.S. Navy are in various states of completion with estimated dates of commissioning at which time the ship is considered ready for assignment to the fleet.

  Table 2. Ironclad State of Construction

  Table 2. Characteristics of Ironclads Building

  Table 3. Ships to Be Available to the Fleet by Date

  Onondaga Mar 1864 New York

  Canonicus Mar 1864 Boston

  Saugus Mar 1864 Philadelphia

  Tecumseh Mar 1864 Jersey City

  Manhattan Mar 1864 Jersey City

  Winnebago Apr 1864 Carondelet

  Chickasaw Apr 1864 Carondelet

  Camanche Jun 1864 Wilmington

  Tonowanda Jun 1864 New York

  Kickappo Jul 1864 Carondelet

  Milwaukee Jul 1864 Carondelet

  Mahopac Jul 1864 New York

  Catawba Jul 1864 Cincinnati

  Manaynuck Jul 1864 Pittsburgh

  Oneota Aug 1864 Cincinnati

  Monadnock Aug 1864 Boston

  Dictator Sep 1864 New York

  Puritan Sep 1864 New York

  Tippicanoe Dec 1864 Cincinnati

  Agamenticus Dec 1864 Portsmouth

  Table 3. Monitors on Active Service with the Fleet

  New Ironsides

  Roanoke

  Passaic

  Montauk

  Lehigh

  Patapsco

  Weehawken

  Sangamon

  Catskill

  Nantucket

  APPENDIX E

  Order-of-Battle of the Cavalry Action at Hanover Junction

  Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac

  Maj. Gen. Phillip H. Sheridan Commanding

  Strength: App. 8,500

  2nd Division, Brig. Gen. David M. Gregg Commanding

  First Brigade

  1st Massachusetts Cavalry

  1st New Jersey Cavalry

  10th New York Cavalry

  6th Ohio Cavalry

  1st Pennsylvania Cavalry

  Second Brigade

  2nd Pennsylvania Cavalry

  4th Pennsylvania Cavalry

  8th Pennsylvania Cavalry

  13th Pennsylvania Calvary

  16th Pennsylvania Cavalry

  3rd Division, Brig. Gen. James H. Wilson Commanding1

  First Brigade

  1st Connecticut Cavalry

  2nd New York Cavalry

  5th New York Cavalry

  Second Brigade

  8th Illinois Cavalry

  8th New York Cavalry

  18th Pennsylvania Cavalry

  Reserve Brigade, Brig. Gen. Wesley Merritt Commanding

  19th New York Cavalry

  6th Pennsylvania Cavalry

  1st US Cavalry

  2nd US Cavalry

  4th US Cavalry

  Robertson’s Horse Artillery Brigade

  1st US Artillery, Batteries H and I

  2nd US Artillery, Batteries B, L, D, and M

  Cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia

  Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart Commanding

  Strength: App. 6,300

  Major General Wade Hampton’s Division

  Young’s Brigade

  7th Georgia Cavalry

  20th Georgia Cavalry

  Cobb’s (Georgia) Legion (9th Georgia Cavalry)

  Phillips (Georgia) Legion

  Jeff Davis (Mississippi) Legion

  Rosser’s Brigade

  7th Virginia Cavalry

  11th Virginia Cavalry

  12th Virginia Cavalry

  35th Battalion Virginia

  Butler’s Brigade

  4th South Carolina Cavalry

  5th South Carolina Cavalry

  6th South Carolina Cavalry

  Major General Fitzhugh Lee’s Division

  Wickham’s Brigade

  1st Virginia Cavalry

  2nd Virginia Cavalry

  3rd Virginia Cavalry

  4th Virginia Cavalry

  Lomax’s Brigade

  6th Virginia Cavalry

  9th Virginia Cavalry

  1st Maryland Cavalry Battalion

  Artillery

  Baltimore Light Artillery

  Breathed’s Horse Artillery Battalion

  Washington Artillery of South Carolina

  Ashby Virginia Artillery

  Lynchburg Beauregards

  1st Stuart Horse Artillery of Virginia

  NOTES

  CHAPTER ONE: “I’VE BEEN TURNED INTO A COMPLETE AMERICAN NOW”

  1. USS Catskill, Passaic class monitor, 200x46x11ft 6in, 1x15-in., 1x11-in. smoothbore Dahlgrens, 1,335 tons, commissioned 2-63. Angus Konstam, Duel of the Ironclads (London: Osprey Publishing, 2003), p. 93.

  2. HMS Buzzard, Wood paddle sloop, 185x34ft, 6 guns, 980 bm, built Pembroke Dockyard 24.3.1849. J.J. Colledge, Ships of the Royal Navy (London: Greenhill Books, 2003), p. 63.

  3. Originally named Gosport Naval Yard, this huge naval base was located at the city of Norfolk, Virginia. Early in the war it was renamed Norfolk Naval Yard.

  4. During the Ice Age when the sea level was 150-200 feet lower, what is now the Chesapeake Bay was the river valley of the Susquehanna River.

  5. Originally named the Gosport Navy Yard, it was renamed the Norfolk Navy Yard as the Civil War progressed.

  6. During the Age of Sail, corvettes were smaller than frigates and larger than sloops-of-war, usually with a single gun deck and having more than twenty guns, usually in the case of the Royal Navy at this time twenty to twenty-two guns. A British sloop-of-war at this time with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns. Gunboats usually carried one to five guns.

  7. The issue of who actually started the war became something of a cottage industry in both countries after the war. The issue was definitely discussed in Peter G. Tsouras, Britannia’s Fist: From Civil War Became World War (Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2008).

  8. *Gilbert A. Allen, Slavery and the Confederacy (New York: The Century Co., 1899), pp. 199–203. With secession the Confederacy considered it no longer bound by the constitutional provision that ended the importation of slaves and eagerly opened its ports to slave ships now easily slipping through the denuded Royal Navy force that had suppressed it. The resumption of the importation of slaves by the Confederacy was an enormous embarrassment to the Disraeli government, which made it clear to Jefferson Davis that continuance of the practice could and would endanger military and economic cooperation. Davis was not impressed with the threat. The British needed the Confederacy as a co-belligerent.

 

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