<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" id="mwjg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>: The <i id="mwjw"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Affair" id="mwkA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Trent Affair">Trent Affair</a></i>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America" id="mwkQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Confederate States of America">Confederate</a> diplomatic envoys <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Murray_Mason" id="mwkg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="James Murray Mason">James Murray Mason</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Slidell" id="mwkw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="John Slidell">John Slidell</a> are freed by the United States government, thus heading off a possible war between the United States and the United Kingdom.<sup about="#mwt89" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-16"}}' id="cite_ref-16" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_26#cite_note-16" id="mwlA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 16;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwlQ">[16]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-16"><cite about="#mwt86" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFBarney2011">Barney, William L. (2011). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=vC5T-O9afXEC" id="mwB1M" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwB1Q">The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Civil War</i></a>. New York: Oxford University Press. p.<span id="mwB1U" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>323. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwB1Y" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwB1c" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9780199782017" id="mwB1g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9780199782017"><bdi id="mwB1k">9780199782017</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt86" class="Z3988" id="mwB1o" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Oxford+Encyclopedia+of+the+Civil+War&amp;rft.place=New+York&amp;rft.pages=323&amp;rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&amp;rft.date=2011&amp;rft.isbn=9780199782017&amp;rft.aulast=Barney&amp;rft.aufirst=William+L.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DvC5T-O9afXEC&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+26"></span></span>