1862 JOEL PARKER. The Trent Affair & the Capture of Mason and Slidell. Confederate Spies - Civil War Abolition Aitken was also a well-known

Aitken was also a well-known evangelist and was thought to have preached more sermons than any man in England

delivered what the New York Times called "the most celebrated speech" of his career: a scathing denunciation of Brooks

but a colonel in the military and a flaming evangelist among the young soldiers

*The Revival of Religion at Pittfield

1862 JOEL PARKER. The Trent Affair & the Capture of Mason and Slidell. Confederate Spies - Civil War Abolition Aitken was also a well-knownA wonderfully rare first edition work on the Trent Affair, which nearly drew the United States into a war with Great Britain just as the Civil War in America was beginning, i. e., December of 1861. What led to the crisis? Two Confederate spies, John Mason of Virginia and John Slidell of Louisiana, were arrested aboard a British mail ship, the Trent, attempting to flee the United States in order to lobby England for their official recognition of the