JULY 6, 1864: Captain Cicero Price of the USS Jamestown, wrote Secretary Welles from Yokohama, Japan, regarding the celebration of Independence Day in that far-off port: "The Fourth was very handsomely celebrated here, all the foreign ships of war participating by dressing their ships, as well as saluting. It was very marked on the part of the British."
With the tide of war ashore as well as afloat swinging to the Union, British intervention of the side of the South was no longer much of a possibility.
--Old B-Runner
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