Britannia's Fist: From Civil War to World War: An Alternate History (3 page)

All the rest of the crowded cast of characters, save a handful of fictionalized individuals, are real people who walked the stage of history.

I would like to thank Professor Wade Dudley, East Carolina University, for his meticulous review of the manuscript of this book, and Professor Steven Badsey, formerly of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, for his advice in the development of this story. Not least, I would like to acknowledge Thomas Bilbao for serving as a sounding board with his exhaustive knowledge of military history.

The Grand Trunk Railroad, 1863

The Battle of Moelfre Bay, September 4, 1863

The Battle of the Upper Bay, September 24, 1863

The Invasion of the Northeast, September 30, 1863

The British Attack on Portland, Phase 1, September 30, 1863

The British Attack on Portland, Phase 2, September 30, 1863

Breaking the Blockade, October 1863

The Third Battle of Charleston, October 8, 1863

Adams, Charles Francis, Jr
. Captain, U.S. Volunteers, 5th Massachusetts Cavalry, and son of Ambassador Charles Francis Adams.

Adams, Charles Francis, Sr
., U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James, son of President John Quincy Adams and grandson of President John Adams.

Adams, Henry
. Private secretary to and son of Ambassador Charles Francis Adams.

Alfred Ernest Albert, His Royal Highness
. Lieutenant, Royal Navy (RN), aboard HMS
Racoon
, the 19-year-old second son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

Babcock, John C
. Civilian order-of-battle analyst and Assistant Director, Bureau of Military Information (BMI), Headquarters, Army of the Potomac.

Baker, Lafayette
. Director of the Secret Service of the War Department.

Bazaine, François Achille
. Major General, French Imperial Army, Commander, French Forces in Mexico and of the Texas Expedition in support of the Confederacy.

Bazalgette, George
. Captain, Royal Marine Light Infantry.

Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant de
. General, C.S. Army, commander of the coastal defenses of South Carolina and Georgia.

Berdan, Hiram
. Colonel, U.S. Volunteers, Commander, Rifle Regiment.

Bowles, Dr. William
. A leader of the Copperhead conspiracy in Indiana.

Bragg, Braxton
. General, C.S. Army, Commander, Army of Tennessee.

Bright, John
. Member of Parliament and advocate of the Union, derisively referred to as the “Member for America.”

Bulloch, James Dunwoody
. Captain, C.S. Navy, and chief Confederate agent in the United Kingdom.

Callaway, James E
. Major, U.S. Volunteers, 21st Illinois Volunteer Infantry, assigned to the Army of the Cumberland.

Carnegie, Andrew
. Railroad executive, entrepreneur, and organizer of the first train to rush troops to the defense of Washington at the outbreak of the Civil War.

Carrington, Henry B
. Colonel, U.S. Volunteers, chief anti-Copperhead intelligence officer in Indiana.

Chamberlain, William Charles
. Captain, RN, Commander of HMS
Resistance
.

Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence
. Colonel, U.S. Volunteers, Commander, 1st Brigade, First Battle of Portland.

Clay, Cassius Marcellus
. Fiery Kentucky abolitionist and U.S. Ambassador to the Imperial Russian government in St. Petersburg.

Cline, Milton
. Major, U.S. Volunteers, 3rd Indiana Cavalry, and senior scout of the Central Information Bureau (CIB).

Cochrane, Hon. Arthur
. Captain, RN, flag captain to Rear Admiral Seymour.

Cromwell, J. B
. Lieutenant, USN, Commander of USS
Atlanta
.

Dahlgren, John A
. Rear Admiral, USN, Commander of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron.

Dahlgren, Ulric
. Colonel, U.S. Volunteers, hero of Gettysburg and son of Admiral Dahlgren.

Dana, Charles
. Publisher, U.S. Assistant Secretary of War.

Davis, Jefferson
. President of the Confederate States of America.

Dennis, George
. Lieutenant Colonel, Canadian Militia, Commander of the Royal Guides.

Dow, Neal
. Brigadier General, U.S. Volunteers, the Colonel of 13th Maine Regiment of the Army of the Potomac; sent home on recruiting duty.

Doyle, Sir Hastings
. Major General, British Army, commanding Imperial Forces in the Maritime Provinces of British North America.

Dudley, Thomas Haines
. U.S. Consul in Liverpool, England.

Fox, Gustavus “Gus.”
U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Navy, essentially in modern terms, Chief of Naval Operations.

Gorchakov, Aleksandr
. Russian Foreign Minister.

Hall, Basil
. Lieutenant, Royal Navy, and flag lieutenant to Admiral Milne.

Halleck, Henry Wager
. Major General, U.S. Volunteers, General-in-Chief of the Armies.

Hancock, George
. Captain, RN, Commander of HMS
Immortalité
, temporarily detached as naval attaché to Lord Lyons, Ambassador to the United States.

Hines, Henry Thomas
. Captain, C.S. Army, Morgan’s Cavalry Brigade, Army of Tennessee.

Hogan, Martin
. Private, U.S. Volunteers, recently arrived young Irish immigrant and scout for the Bureau of Military Information (BMI), Army of the Hudson.

Hooker, Joseph
. Major General, U.S. Army, Commander, Army of the Hudson.

Ingraham, Duncan
. Captain, C.S. Navy, Commander of the Charleston Naval Station.

Lambert, Rowley
. Captain, RN, Commander, HMS
Liverpool
.

Lamson, Roswell Hawks
. Lieutenant, USN, Commander, U.S.S.
Nansemond
and
Gettysburg
.

Langely, Charles
. Lieutenant Colonel, British Army, Commander of the 1/16th Foot.

Layard, Austin David
. Member of Parliament and Undersecretary to Lord Russell at the Foreign Office.

Lee, Robert E
. General, C.S. Army, Commander, Army of Northern Virginia.

Lincoln, Abraham
. Sixteenth President of the United States.

Lindsay, Hon. James
. Major General, British Army, Commander, Brigade of Guards at the battle of Claverack.

Lisovsky, Stefan S
. Rear Admiral, Russian Imperial Navy, and Commander of the Baltic Squadron sent to New York City.

Longstreet, James
. Lieutenant General, C.S. Army, Commander, First Corps, Army of Northern Virginia.

Lowe, Thaddeus
. Scientist, Colonel, U.S. Volunteers, founder and commander of the Balloon Corps.

Lyons, Lord
. British Ambassador to the United States.

McCarter, Michael William
. Former Sergeant of the Irish Brigade discharged for wounds after Chancellorsville.

McEntee, John
. Captain, U.S. Volunteers, Chief, Bureau of Military Information (BMI), Army of the Hudson.

McPhail, James L
. Civilian, Provost Marshal of Maryland and later Deputy Chief, Central Information Bureau (CIB).

Meade, George Gordon
. Major General, U.S. Volunteers, Commander, Army of the Potomac.

Meagher, Thomas Francis
. Major General, U.S. Volunteers, Commander, XI Corps, Army of the Hudson.

Mercier, Edouard-Henri
. Imperial French Ambassador to the United States.

Milne, Sir Alexander
. Vice Admiral, RN, Commander of the North American and West Indies Station.

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Morgan, George “The Contraband.”
Body slave to John Hunt Morgan.

Morgan, John Hunt
. Colonel, C.S. Army, Commander, Morgan’s Cavalry Brigade, Army of Tennessee.

Morton, Oliver
. Republican Governor of Indiana.

Paulet, Lord Frederick
. Major General, British Army, Commander of the Hudson Field Force in the invasion of New York.

Porter, Benjamin H
. Lieutenant, USN, Executive Officer, U.S.S.
Nansemond
and
Gettysburg
.

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai Andreyevich
. Ensign, Imperial Russian Navy.

Ripley, James W
. Colonel, U.S. Army, Chief, Ordnance Bureau.

Rivers, Pitt
. Lieutenant Colonel, British Army, late Assistant Quartermaster of the garrison of Ireland and on detached duty to British North America.

Rosecrans, William “Old Rosy.”
Major General, U.S. Volunteers, Commander, Army of the Cumberland.

Russell, Lord John
. British Foreign Minister.

Scott, Thomas
. U.S. Assistant Secretary of War.

Sedgwick, John
. Major General, U.S. Volunteers, Commander, VI Corps, Army of the Potomac, and in independent command of the relief of Portland.

Semmes, Raphael
. Captain, C.S. Navy, Commander of the C.S.S.
Alabama
, the greatest of the Confederate commerce raiders.

Seward, William H
. U.S. Secretary of State.

Seymour, Sir Michael
. Rear Admiral, RN, Commander of the squadron sent to destroy the U.S. Navy’s South Atlantic Blockading Squadron at Charleston.

Sharpe, George H
. Brig. Gen., U.S. Volunteers, Director of the Central Information Bureau (CIB) and Commander of the 120th Regiment, NY Volunteers.

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Smoke, James R. “Big Jim.”
Chief agent for the Copperhead movement in Indiana.

Stanton, Edwin McMasters
. U.S. Secretary of War.

Stidger, Felix
. Agent of the War Department among the Copperheads.

St. Ledger, George Grenfell
. British military adventurer, late of the C.S. Army.

Stoekel, Baron
. Russian ambassador to the United States.

Thomas, George “The Rock of Chickamauga.”
Major General, U.S. Volunteers, who succeeded Rosecrans as Commander, Army of the Cumberland.

Trenholm, George
. Owner of Trenholm, Fraser & Company, the chief financial backer of the Confederacy in the United Kingdom.

Vallandingham, Klement
. Former U.S. Congressman and head of the Copperhead movement in the North.

Wainwright, James Francis Ballard
. Captain, RN, Commander of HMS
Black Prince
.

*
Washington, Willie
. Old handyman for the Orphan Asylum for Colored Children in New York City.

Welles, Gideon
. U.S. Secretary of the Navy.

Wetherall, E. R
. Colonel, British Army, Chief of Staff to Lt. Gen. William Fenwick Williams.

Williams, William Fenwick
. Lieutenant General, British Army, Commander, Imperial forces in British North America.

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Wilmoth, Michael D
. First Lieutenant, U.S. Volunteers, senior order-of-battle analyst, Central Information Bureau (CIB).