Your USA/CSA political faction during Civil War?

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

A lot of the British working class seemed to directly see the Confederacy - aristocratic, elitist and exploitative as akin to their own country's rulers. Especially as it increasingly became defined as synonymous with slavery, which was seen as an utterly backward practice in the country by then (even by the most conservative Tories, who enjoyed making the Americans with their talk of liberty look like hypocrites).

There were pockets of pro-confederate sympathy, especially in the port city of Liverpool, which was hugely hit by the unionist blockade of cotton, but overwhelmingly the public remained favourable to the Union, especially after the Emancipation Proclamation. It was actually quite a self-sacrificing move, enough for Lincoln himself to declare tribute to the workers of Manchester.

I read an interesting book a few years ago about the lengths that Lincoln's diplomats and spies went to, to stir pro-US sentiment among the British working classes.

Charles Francis Adams is arguably the most undeservedly forgotten figure of the American Civil War, for this reason among others.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

A lot of the British working class seemed to directly see the Confederacy - aristocratic, elitist and exploitative as akin to their own country's rulers. Especially as it increasingly became defined as synonymous with slavery, which was seen as an utterly backward practice in the country by then (even by the most conservative Tories, who enjoyed making the Americans with their talk of liberty look like hypocrites).

There were pockets of pro-confederate sympathy, especially in the port city of Liverpool, which was hugely hit by the unionist blockade of cotton, but overwhelmingly the public remained favourable to the Union, especially after the Emancipation Proclamation. It was actually quite a self-sacrificing move, enough for Lincoln himself to declare tribute to the workers of Manchester.

I read an interesting book a few years ago about the lengths that Lincoln's diplomats and spies went to, to stir pro-US sentiment among the British working classes.

Charles Francis Adams is arguably the most undeservedly forgotten figure of the American Civil War, for this reason among others.

Not just him, but also this guy:


I am pretty sure this is the book I read.

[The Mikado]

If I'm using my avatar (the DC one), Moderate Republican, most likely. If I'm using my actual location nowadays (TX), anti-war, Unionist Texan (which was actually quite a common position in Texas' large immigrant population).