This web site sort of implies it did...Quote:
Originally Posted by dazza
http://www.whenliverpoolwasdixie.co.uk/index.html
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This web site sort of implies it did...Quote:
Originally Posted by dazza
http://www.whenliverpoolwasdixie.co.uk/index.html
The Confederate embassy/consulate was in Rumford place,so I imagine the flag flew outside! They were probably welcome customers to Liverpool business's,especially Laird's,who built the "Shenandoah" for them,which was,apparently,the most succesful warship....ever! This resulted in Liverpool having to pay compensation,for lost ship's,etc,after the war was over!
I think it was built in Scotland, but based in Liverpool. The CSS certainly surrendered to the British in Liverpool, but it also seemed that most of the Confederate Navy's crew were from Liverpool.Quote:
Originally Posted by wsteve55
http://www.csa-dixie.com/liverpool_dixie/shenandoah.htm
Now the CSS Alabama was definitely built on the Mersey - it captured/burned 65 Union ships -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS_Alabama
It got the most recognition in the Southern museums we went to, I'll see what pics from the trip I can dig out.
A Collection of clippings regarding the CSS Alabama.
This one is from the Liverpool Albion copied in a Sheffield and Rotheram paper. The British Government sent out the screw-ship Shannon to keep the peace between the Confederate and Federal ships in British waters. Perhaps also to capture the mysterious "Hull 290"
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From the Liverpool Mercury
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From the Lancaster Gazette and General Advertiser she is now full armed and manned. Full steam ahead!
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From the Dundee Courier The Fedral ship Tuscarora still can't catch the Alabama despite disguising itself as a Dutch ship.
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From the Birmingham Daily Post
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From the Glasgow Herald the Alabama in full action, taking two merchantmen.
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From the London Daily Post an account of the Battle of Cherbourg where the Alabama was sunk.
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You are right there,Az, it was the "Alabama" ,not the "Shenandoah" that was built at Laird's,but both pretty successful!
Hey Steve, it looks like a bit of Dixie still survives in Liverpool [no source for the images, so I'll have to check out Rumford Place]. Also on board the Shenandoah in the Mersey was the last surrender [to the British government, rather than American] of the Civil War.Quote:
Originally Posted by wsteve55
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Here's 1 pic' of the Confederate embassy,for now,but there must be more?
Excellent work fortinian, and up to your usual high standards. "Hull 290" is a fascinating story, and no doubt the revenues from all the cotton trade in Liverpool helped to bank roll her, even despite the Union blockade of Conferancy ships, which crippled trade both here and in the Southern states. Interesting to read about the intelligence reports of a possible Confederate ship from the Mersey. I wonder whether the Union ships were allowed to attack Confederate ships in British held waters?Quote:
Originally Posted by fortinian
Some other connections. Steve has already mention 10 Rumford Place, Liverpool, as a kind of Confederate embassy, [then the office of George Trenholm & Charles Prioleau cotton agents].
The most public acknowledgement of the Southern cause would have to be at St George's Hall, that hotbed of Dixie-whistling favouritism.
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"It is not surprising, then, that Liverpool should have been the location for a Bazaar held in October 1864 in aid of the Southern Prisoners' Relief Fund. The purpose of the Fund was to provide comforts such as extra food and clothing for Confederate prisoners of war held in Northern prisons...
The setting for the Bazaar was St George's Hall, the huge neo-classical building which is still one of the architectural glories of Liverpool...
The Bazaar opened at 12 o'clock on Tuesday 18 October 1864 in bright weather, 'real Confederate sunshine supplementing the English autumn with something of the glory of the American fall...
Present on the first day were...John Laird, the prominent local shipbuilder and MP for Birkenhead. Visitors on Wednesday included former officers from the CSS Alabama, which had been built across the Mersey at Laird's Birkenhead yard.
Inside the main hall there were twelve stalls, arranged five on each side, with two in the centre, representing the eleven states of the Confederacy and Kentucky...
More than £20,000 was raised in sales receipts and subscriptions." Source.
Here's a wiki link re'the embassy.
http://www.liverpoolwiki.org/Liverpo...federate_Fleet
Totally enthralling thread, more please.
Cheers,
Chas:nod:
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