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Date	October 1863 - September 14, 1872
Participants	Confederate States of America • United Kingdom • United States

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Ulysses S. Grant

president of United States

William Ewart Gladstone

prime minister of United Kingdom

Samuel Nelson

United States jurist

Charles Francis Adams

American diplomat

Lord Ripon, oil painting by George Frederic Watts, 1895; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

George Frederick Samuel Robinson, 1st marquess of Ripon

British statesman

Morrison Remick Waite

chief justice of United States

Alexander Cockburn, detail of an oil painting by A.D. Cooper; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, 10th Baronet

British chief justice

Hamilton Fish

United States secretary of state

Granville George Leveson-Gower, detail of a pencil drawing by F. Sargent; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville

British statesman

William Maxwell Evarts

American politician

Caleb Cushing

United States statesman

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