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The Civil War conjures images of blood-soaked battlefields in america, but few know about the equally important diplomatic and intelligence contest that raged between the North and South in Europe. While the Confederacy sought THE UK as a strategic ally, the Union utilized diplomacy and espionage to avert both construction of the Confederate navy and the threat of war with England. At the forefront of the international fray was Thomas Haines Dudley, the American consul in Liverpool and "the daddy of modern American intelligence." As the Confederates determined to make use of British shipyards, Dudley established a network of agents throughout England to report on enemy activities and, ultimately, to negate foreign intervention in the American Civil War.
