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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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LEADERS OF DIPLOMACY IN 1863: SECRETARY SEWARD AND NINE FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AT THE TIME WHEN CONFEDERATE CRUISERS ABROAD WERE AN INTERNATIONAL PROBLEM.
No military picture of moving troops, no group of distinguished generals, could possibly hold the interest fur students of the history of the Civil War that this photograph possesses. It is the summer of 1863. Gathered at the foot of this beautiful waterfall, as if at the end of a day's outing for pleasure, are ten men of mark and great importance. Here are William H. Seward. American Secretary of State, standing bareheaded, to the right. With him, numbered so that the reader can easily identify them, are

(2) Baron De Stoeckel, Russian Minister;

(3) M. Molena, Nicaraguan Minister;

(4) Lord Lyons, British Minister;

(5) M. Mercier, French Minister;

(6) M. Schleiden, Hanseatic Minister;

(7) M. Bertenatti, Italian Minister;

(8) Count Piper, Swedish Minister;

(9) M. Bodisco, Secretary Russian Legation;

(10) Mr. Sheffield, Attache British Legation;

(11) Mr. Donaldson, a messenger in the State Department.

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