"When The US-Russian Alliance that Saved the Union" Topic

"One hundred fifty years after the attack on Fort Sumter, the international strategic dimension of the American Civil War represents a much-neglected aspect of Civil War studies. In offering a survey of some of the main issues involved, one feels required to justify the importance of the topic. It is indeed true that, as things turned out, the international strategic dimension of the 1861-65 conflict was of secondary importance. However, it was an aspect that repeatedly threatened to thrust itself into the center of the war, transforming the entire nature of the conflict and indeed threatening to overturn the entire existing world system. The big issue was always a British-French attack on the United States to preserve the Confederate States of America. This is certainly how Union and Confederate leaders viewed the matter, and how some important people in London, St. Petersburg, Paris, and Berlin did as well…."
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Armand

The Russians were not making any effort to support the Union, but rather seeking a place for their ships to shelter due to what had happened shortly before the ACW (the Crimean War). Being on cruises that kept their ships out of home ports that could be easily blockaded by the British/French should a new war break out was a plus to them.

Dan

Agree!.

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