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Robert Gween letter, January 17, 1862

The Pending Conflict

The Pending Conflict, one of three similar lithographs published by Oliver Evans Woods, reflecting grave northern fears of British and French interference on behalf of the Confederacy in the Civil War.

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division

Location
Pearce Museum at Navarro College (Corsicana, Tex) External Link
Background
Robert Gween was a Confederate expatriate living in England. Gween's letter was written shortly after the resolution of the Trent Affair incident involving the doctrine of freedom of the seas which nearly precipitated war between Great Britain and the United States.
Contents
Gween writes to his son, reporting on the expected arrival of the Confederate envoys James Mason and John Slidell and European feelings toward the Confederacy.

 

 

 

 

(See the NUCMC catalog record)

 

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