Lincoln's Man in LiverpoolRefusing to side with either the Union or the Confederacy, Great Britain officially declared neutrality in the U. S. Civil War, thereby putting into effect the Foreign Enlistment Act, which forbade all belligerents to arm ships in her ports. Unofficially, many British citizens sympathized with the Confederacy because the Union's naval blockade stopped the flow of cotton from Southern fields to English textile mills. For this reason, the Confederate