Stars and Stripes In Peril

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Abraham Lincoln President of the United States

Hannibal Hamlin Vice-President

William H. Seward Secretary of State

Edwin M. Stanton Secretary of War

Gideon Welles Secretary of the Navy

Salmon P. Chase Secretary of the Treasury

Gustavus Fox Assistant Secretary of the Navy

Edward Bates Attorney General

Judah P. Benjamin Secretary for the South

John Nicolay First Secretary to President Lincoln

John Hay Secretary to President Lincoln

William Parker Parrott Gunsmith

John Ericsson Inventor of USS Monitor

Frederick Douglass of the Freedmen’s Bureau

UNITED STATES ARMY

General William Tecumseh Sherman

General Ulysses S. Grant

General Ramsay Head of Ordnance Department

General Robert E. Lee

General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson

General James Longstreet

General Joseph E. Johnston

General Thomas Francis Meagher Commander of the Irish Brigade

Surgeon Francis Reynolds

General Bragg Commander of the Texas Brigade

UNITED STATES NAVY

Commodore Goldsborough Captain of USS Avenger

Rear Admiral David Dickson Porter

Admiral David Glasgow Farragut

Captain Green Captain of USS Hartford

Captain Johns Captain of USS Dictator

Captain Raphael Semmes Captain of USS Virginia

Captain Weaver Captain USS Pawatuck

Captain Eveshaw Captain USS Stalwart

MEXICO

Benito Juarez President of Mexico

Don Ambrosio O’Higgins Revolutionary

General Porfirio Diáz Oaxaca guerrillero chief

General Escobeda Monterrey guerrillero chief

Archduke Maximilian French puppet emperor

GREAT BRITAIN

Victoria Regina Queen of Great Britain and Ireland

Lord Palmerston Prime Minister

Lord John Russell Foreign Secretary

William Gladstone Chancellor of the Exchequer

BRITISH ARMY

Duke of Cambridge Commander-in-Chief

Brigadier Somerville the Duke’s aide

General Arthur Tarbet commander Belfast forces

BRITISH NAVY

Admiral Napier

Vice-Admiral Sawyer

Captain Frederick Durnford Captain HMS Conqueror

Captain Fosbery Captain HMS Valiant

Captain Cockham Captain HMS Intrepid