America's Civil War

Stonewall Jackson, Beresford Hope, and the Meaning of the Civil War in Britain

By Michael J. Turner

LSU Press, 2020, $50

British historian write a book linking Stonewall Jackson with Alexander James Beresford Hope? Michael J. Turner hints at the answer in the subtitle of his ingeniously integrated investigation of the meaning of the Civil War in Britain. Jackson, of course, was one of the Confederacy’s most successful generals; Beresford Hope was a leader of the very active pro-Confederate lobby in

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