Isaac Wistar
Capt Charles Wilkes + Robert Shuffeldt
Alpheus Williams
Charles Wilkes
Max Von Weber
Reuben Wilbur
Godfrey Weitzel
Frank Wheaton
Youthful soldier with flag
Theodore Winthrop
Orlando Wilcox
James Wilson
Horatio Wright
Charles Wilkes
Horatio Wright
Samuel Zook
Charles Woods
Union Officers
Frank Wheaton
Amiel Weeks Whipple
Junius White
Capt Charles Wilkes + Robert Shuffeldt US Navy Captain Charles Wilkes (right) confers with Robert Shuffeldt, American counsel general to Cuba, in Havana, in late October 1861. Wilkes is hoping to block the passage to Europe of two senior CSA officials -- James Mason and John Slidell – sent to persuade Britain and France to recognize the Confederate government. After the two leave Havana aboard the British mail packet HMS Trent, Wilkes stops the ship on November 8, removes both envoys, and sends them to prison in Boston. This action infuriates the British, whose threat of war is backed by sending 12,000 troops to Canada. The diplomatic crisis known as the Trent Affair ends when Lincoln disavows Wilkes’ action and releases the prisoners.
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Thomas Wood
Horatio Wright