Lincoln's Man in Liverpool Consul Dudley and the Legal Battle to Stop Confederate Warships

During the American Civil War, Confederate agents commissioned British shipbuilders to construct commerce raiders and armor-plated warships. Despite the British government¿s refusal to confiscate these vessels, U.S. Consul Thomas Haines Dudley gathered evidence which eventually won the United States reparations from Great Britain for failing to enforce its own neutrality laws.Cross, Coy F. is the author of 'Lincoln's Man in Liverpool Consul Dudley and the Legal Battle to Stop Confederate Warships', published 2007 under ISBN 9780875803739 and ISBN 0875803733.