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A Confederate Englishman: The Civil War Letters of Henry Wemyss Feilden. Edited by W. Eric Emerson and Karen Stokes. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2013. Pp. xviii, 187. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-61117-135-8.)
This edition of the Civil War letters of an English aristocrat who resigned his commission in the British army, ran the Union blockade, and joined the Confederate forces in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1863 is a valuable contribution to understanding that conflict. Editors W. Eric Emerson and Karen Stokes present the letters of Henry Wemyss Feilden, the second son of the baronet of Feniscowles, a soldier-adventurer who had served with British forces in the Indian Mutiny of 1857-1858. Feilden fell in love while serving the Confederacy in South Carolina and married Julia McCord, the...